“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
DePat note: This was originally supposed to post at the time it would have been done on the east coast, 11 pm. I reconsidered that and offer it early in the hopes that more people can partake. DePat update note, Christmas Morning @ 8:15 Central: Thanks to Wolf and Cooth, I was able to largely … Continue reading Lessons and Carols 2021
I still had the edit window open when the site crashed. I have nothing but grief when I try to copy/paste the Chinese yellow-on-red stuff, so I'm going to just post the "new" content here as a recovery. (Update--I brought it over and it works fine. Never mind. On with the show! SPECIAL SECTION: Message … Continue reading 2021·12·25 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread (Recovered)
(Formerly the Emergency KAG Open Thread 20211225) UPDATE The Christmas Daily Open Thread has now been copied and recovered from the (closed for repairs) main site, and can now be found at the link below. Please post new "Open Thread" comments there. If you want to comment on anything I talked about below, or reply … Continue reading Christmas in the Manger
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