The North Korean government claims Kim Jong Il made 11 holes-in-one in his first golf game. For a long time I wondered why they bother making up such outrageous lies. Then one day I realized that the very outrageousness of the lie IS the point. Every tyrant’s power is built on a foundation of lies, and Read More…
Author: Barry Arrington
attorney; specialist in school law and litigation; former member of Colorado House of Representatives
Are We Free?
There is a constant struggle in every man’s heart between what he does and what he knows he should do. Freud and the Apostle Paul wrote about this conflict in the following famous passages: Thus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality, struggles to master its economic task of Read More…
Defend the Children
The madness will not end until we grasp the following truths: 1. There are hundreds of millions of guns in the US. 2. Even assuming for the sake of argument that it would be a desirable thing to do, no gun control law can eliminate all or even a small fraction of those guns. 3. Read More…
Quote of the Day
The quote of the day comes from commenter AaronS1978. In a comment to my last post, Aaron brings to our attention MMA fighter Fallon Fox, a man posing as a woman and fighting in the woman’s division. He has smashed the faces of multiple woman. Aaron writes that in our brave new world: beating the Read More…
Yes, Lia Thomas is Causing Harm
Some have responded to my last post by saying “take a chill pill dude” (not kidding; one commentator actually resorted to that inanity). They argue that I should settle down because Lia Thomas’ posing as a woman to crush real women in athletic competitions does not harm anyone. Nonsense. He is causing harm. Former collegiate Read More…
Never Fall into the Trap of Trying to Argue for the Self Evident
For two reasons, it is a mistake to argue for self-evident propositions. First, it is impossible to argue for a self-evident proposition because the definition of a self-evident proposition is a proposition that is known to be true merely by understanding its meaning. Consider the challenge “I deny 1+1=2. Prove it.” Don’t fall for it. Read More…
How the Doctrine of Original Sin Helped Spark the Scientific Revolution and Why Neo- Pelagianism Has Produced the Replication Crisis
Are the majority of new scientific publications false? There is very good evidence to believe that is the case. This short video is must viewing for anyone who wants to know why that is the case. As our News Desk has faithfully reported these last couple of years, science is beset with a replication crisis. Read More…
Frank Herbert’s Secular Prophecy
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles Frank Herbert, Children of Dune Last Tuesday I arrived at an inflection point in my view about the prospects Read More…
Lockdowns Accomplished Nothing
I blew it when I predicted in 2020 that the Covid scare would be like the many scares before it, much hyped but not nearly as deadly as the fear mongers suggested it would be. But I was spot on when I pushed back against the lockdown being pushed by the Imperial College London crowd Read More…
Materialists Know What They Say is False. They Say it Anyway
Otherwise, they would have to give up their materialism. Recently I posted about a woman who was charged with attempted murder when she put a newborn baby in a garbage bag and tossed him in a dumpster to die. Here is an exchange I had with Seversky regarding that post: Barry: Is it objectively evil Read More…
Are Mutations Really Random?
That is the question they are asking over at Science Friday. Now, scientists are questioning whether that’s actually true—or if mutation is more likely to occur in some parts of the genome than others. New research published in the journal Nature this week looks at just that question, in a common weed called Arabidopsis thaliana. After following 24 generations of plants Read More…
A Case of Bad Timing
WARNING! The video linked here is extremely disturbing. Four days ago Alexis Avila, a woman in New Mexico, had a baby. She put the baby in a garbage bag and threw him in a dumpster. She is being charged with attempted murder. The good news is that a passerby found the baby (umbilical cord still Read More…
50 Christmases Later
December 19, 1971 was a Sunday, the last one before Christmas. I was ten. My sister was eleven. We went with our family to the evening service at Trinity Baptist Church in Boyd, Texas. After services my parents left us with a group that was going Christmas caroling. We never made it to the first Read More…
Determinism for Thee but Not for Me
A professor sums up a lecture on the evolutionary explanation for why religion has been ubiquitous in every human culture: Professor: So, in summary, every human culture going back thousands of years has been religious because religion is either itself an adaptive behavior or it is a spandrel, a byproduct of the evolution of some Read More…
Please Support UD
It is time for my annual plea for support of our work. Everyone has heard of a “shoestring budget.” But did you know that UD gets by on an “aglet budget”? What is an aglet? you ask. An aglet is that little plastic sheath at the end of a shoestring. That’s right. Our budget is Read More…