Bill Clinton’s “Pump Head”
I have never, and will never, read Vanity Fair. Given our culture is already saturated, more mindless celebrity tittle tattle written by besotted suck-ups I do not need. So I…
Posted inPhilosophy
Wired’s theory: the end of theory
Chris Anderson, over at Wired magazine, has written an article called The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Anderson, whose thesis is that we no…
Posted inFun
I wish I was making this up
Another piece of data is in that shows money does not correlate with intelligence. "Artist" Martin Creed (pictured above) created a "work" called 850, which he will exhibit at the…
What happened to sultry?
I like Jessica Rabbit. Her voice, I mean---Kathleen Turner. Throaty, a hint of edgy raspiness, alluring, damn sexy. But I just found out that I was wrong. Turns out I…
Posted inBook review
Transforming American Military Policy
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy by Frederick W. Kagan, 2006. Encounter Books. Recommendation: read This book is an excellent accounting of the theories that have gripped…
Posted inFun Philosophy
A Rhetorical Question
A tip of the hat to Dennis Dutton's Arts and Letters Daily where this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education appeared. Incidentally, since the Chronicle bought out A&LD, there…
Does watching TV cause autism?
I have no idea, but two gentlemen from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and one from the Economics department at Purdue seem to think so. They have written…
Posted inStatistics
Dollar bill presidents
You'll have heard the speech by now. Barack Obama yesterday addressed a large crowd and said that McCain was Going to try and make you scared of me. [polite applause]…
