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Jeremy Bentham

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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Woke Board Broke
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A Veto for the People
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Concerned and Confused
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Pay the Boatman
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Citizen Government in Gloucester
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Abolish. Or Set in Stone
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Destroying Dane Farming
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Disaster Relief Pass-Over
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Exemplary Rejections
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Not Now
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Minnesota Common Sense
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Putting Principles First
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Yet Another Term Limits Scam
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Coming to Terms with A Logical Fallacy
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The Incumbency vs. Progressives
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Propaganda Bombs
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Bellicose Exclusions
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Re-Packaging Nonsense as Wisdom
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Courage and Wisdom?
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Scientists for Censorship
Sharing“You have signed the death warrant for science,” scientist Peter …

On this day in 1833, Denison Olmsted was alerted by his neighbors to something truly amazing, a night sky filled with shooting stars.

Not just a one or two or a dozen or a hundred: 72,000 or more per hour. Though recognizing where among the constellations meteors came from was ancient knowledge, it had not been recorded by modern-era scientists, at least in this case. What Olmsted noticed was that the meteors were coming from one point in the sky, the constellation Leo. This regular meteor event is now called the Leonid meteor stream.

In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

The Logic of Angry Crowds
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A Childlike Faith…
SOCIALISM… The childlike faith that a powerful, ever-growingGovernment couldn’t possibly pose …
Don’t think legislators deserve a 150% pay raise?
The Arkansas legislature is on track to receive a massive pay …
CNN, You’ve Been Trolled
The Cable News Network, known popularly and un- as CNN — and …
What He Says and What He Means
A handy reference chart.