The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History by Patrick Allitt Recommendation: check out from library for reference (buy here). What is a conservative? Allitt is not sure. This is odd because […]
The Conservatives by Patrick Allitt
Complete Prediction of 2009 NFL Season
This is a continuation of the Lion’s example we did the other day. Every nicety you can think of has been ignored. I won’t even guarantee that I have copied the win/loss […]
What is the probability the Detroit Lions lose every game (again!)
I am from Detroit and I am a Lions fan; erstwhile, anyway. The Lions stink, stank, and have stunk since before I was born. They are lousy, appalling, and nausea-inducing. They are […]
Real Education by Charles Murray
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray Recommendation: read (buy here). The word median is statistical: it is the point at which 50% of […]
Can You Read My Mind?
Ghosts, ESP, telekinesis, astrology, and other assorted oddities are back in view. One of the “SyFy” channel’s most popular series is a show about hunting apparitions. The movie Men Who Stare at […]
Poem Code Challenge Hint
In the last post, reader George suggested a challenge to see whether or not short poem codes would be easy to “break”; that is, decrypt without access to the original poem I […]
Vegetarian Swallow Balls
I went shopping in Chinatown and found these delicacies, which match well with the vegetarian intestines I found last year. Enjoy these—hand slaughtered!—treats on one of the last weekends of the summer. […]
You were right, Ted Kennedy
One day in 1973, in his squeaky, pickled-vocal-chords baritone Ted Kennedy filled the Senate chamber with these words: “Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there […]
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