We have proved yet again that the future is that undiscovered country with our predictions for 2013. See the original guesses here. Don’t make new predictions here. Tomorrow I’ll start the thread, […]
Logan’s Run: A Progressive Utopia
I heard they were (possibly) remaking Logan’s Run and I wondered why. It’s not that the original was terrific or timeless, but it did tell one essential truth: what life will be […]
Predictions For 2011. How’d We do?
Last January 1st I asked for everybody to provide verifiable predictions for the year. Time for reckoning! Tomorrow I’ll ask us to provide predictions for 2012, so hold off on these until […]
The New Ballad of Chicken Little
Once upon a day, so bright and fine Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind! “The sky is blue,” he said, “but I am not.” “For I know much, quite quite a […]
World Cup, Statistics, Movie Lines, Cracked, and Clubbing
USA 1, Small Island Nation 1 Fabio Capello, pictured left, shows us the tracks his tears took after Robert Green revealed his American sympathies by suspiciously letting a shot through—a shot so […]
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.’s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had the bad […]
Never too old to learn
I’m at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to spend time […]
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