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Science for Smart People

Monday, September 5, 2011 20:28 No Comments

Here is an amazing presentation by comedian-filmmaker-writer-health and science enthusiast Tom Naughton of Fathead fame. Tom’s lecture from the first Ancestral Health Symposium is now online. Tom is so good at using visuals and humor to convey why it is that we need to be critical thinkers and skeptics when we wade through the mainstream [...]

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Clip of the Day @ Mike Church

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 19:33 No Comments

My elderberry wine piece made “clip of the day” on the Mike Church radio show. Listen here.

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Milton Friedman Teaches Phil Donahue

Monday, April 12, 2010 20:32 3 Comments

Here’s a classic smash from Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show. Donahue is left speechless by Friedman’s response to his questions about the free market system. Yes, Friedman, in many aspects, went wrong in his career, but this clip shows Friedman as the brilliant and tough teacher as he takes Donahue to the woodshed. [...]

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Comedians Smarter Than News Journalists

Saturday, March 20, 2010 17:30 No Comments

On this week’s Celebrity Jeopardy, Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong fame) beat CNN’s Anderson Cooper, just as comedian Andy Richter beat Wolf Blitzer last year (who finished at -$4,600). Cooper’s loss was blamed on a lack of “buzzer skill.” I’m sure that was it.

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Peggy Noonan Bemoans the Loss of the “Tribal Chieftains”

Saturday, October 3, 2009 7:22 3 Comments

In her Wall Street Journal column this morning (“Keeping America Safe From the Ranters”), Noonan yearns for a new generation of media shills to carry on the state’s agenda, with class, dignity, and humanity, just as the Elders of journalism, or Tribal Chieftains, did before them. She writes: Who are the Elders? They set the [...]

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Posner : Put the Kibosh on the Internet

Friday, July 3, 2009 18:47 3 Comments

The old dinosaur, Richard Posner, comes up with his best material yet. “The bloggers are parasitical on the conventional media,” Posner wrote. “They copy the news and opinion generated by the conventional media, often at considerable expense, without picking up any of the tab. The degree of parasitism is striking in the case of those [...]

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