“First Person Plural”

There’s good evidence that we all have multiple personalities — and that we can use that to understand ourselves and one another better: We used to think that the hard part of the question “How can I be happy?” had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to …

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“Results from Slate’s ‘Choose Your Own Apocalypse’ poll”

Oh, come on! None of those are enough to “destroy America,” even combined. Almost all of them are self-correcting problems: Loose nukes. A nuclear weapon can only be used once, after which it’s gone. If the supposed terrorists had a large supply, they’d be a problem — but without that, all they can do is …

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“Dinosaur creationist theme park seized by government”

[…] The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property. You can invoke the God card to get away with a lot in this country — but the IRS card always trumps …

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