Briggs

Company Stock And Bond Ratings: Skill and Influential Forecasts

If I tell you that it's not going to rain tomorrow, and it doesn't, then I have given you a successful forecast. If I repeat this success a few times,…

Fun

No Labor Today

No bad jokes, no misspellings or other typos, no mysterious themes, no controversies, no ponderous sentences, no imponderables, no nothing. No labor on Labor Day. See everybody tomorrow.

Statistics

Obama Approval Rating By Religion

Mormons, according to the pollsters Gallup, are more dissatisfied with Mr Obama than are any other group of folk. And not only that: Mormons' dissatisfaction is dropping faster than is…

Philosophy

Stephen Hawking vs. God

Everybody knows the following story: At one time, long ago, most or all people believed that when a tree branch fell and caused damage that a god or other spiritual…

Culture

How Steve Jobs Will Destroy Civilization

September 1, 2012 Steve Jobs unveils the Apple TV, a device which allows "consumers" to relieve themselves of the burden of owning movies and television shows. Previously, if people wanted…

Statistics

InterAcademy Council Rebukes IPCC: Pachauri To Resign?

You'll have heard that the InterAcademy Council had a look-see at the inner workings of the IPCC (more on that below). This council, previously unknown to civilization, is, as the…

Statistics

James Cameron Ducks Global Warming Debate That Never Should Have Been Agreed To

Movie maker James Cameron has called people who don't believe as strongly as he does that the end is nigh "boneheads", which, as insults go, isn't particularly inventive. You would…

Culture

Too Many Kids Go To College: A Conversation With Myself

This is the first of many conversations I'll be having with myself this semester on this subject. William Say, Matt. I heard you were teaching this semester. Where? Matt At…