Briggs

“Hand me that ice pack, stat! He has global warming sickness!“, Or, The ED and the Coming Heat Wave

Warning: I don't write the headlines of stories that link here. First, I checked. Nobody uses "stat" in emergency rooms anymore. A chief told me that he couldn't remember the…

Book review

The Conservatives by Patrick Allitt

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…

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…

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.…

Book review

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…

Culture

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…

Statistics

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…

Fun

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…

Jim Fedako on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
"Critics 'are not merely authoritarian, they demonstrate pervasive normative rigidity that comes from Christian fear of judgement,'" says Boghossian while…
Heresolong on Why I Don’t Want To Be Made To Support IsraelApril 19, 2024
"Israel was created as a result of the Balfour declaration with Britain. " Might want to read up on the…
Incitadus on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
What a set of pricelessly insane headlines one hardly knows where to begin but remember the sole intention is to…
RussO on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 19, 2024
Maher has evidently never heard of the word "viewpoint". One can infer that, if they decided to blatantly cheat her…
C-Marie on William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – ThorinquiryApril 18, 2024
I Love to think. Wish all children were taught to think. My Dad started me on St. Thomas Aquinas at…