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More on mammograms
Emotions, as they say, run high, especially about "health." There is a great deal of superfluous, extraneous, and irrelevant discussion taking place with regard to the new mammogram guidelines. Yesterday,…
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Can you do these math problems? If not, you can still go to college
Here are four problems, published by the New York Daily News, that high school graduates attempted as they entered the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The percents are…
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Vacuous Verisimilitude; Or, V has arrived
How did this show get past the ABC censors? How did the folks in Hollywood---good Progressives, all---let this program sneak onto the air? Were movie studio heads so distracted by…
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Secret House health care provision
Rumor has it that Nancy Pelosi slipped in an addendum to the massive House health bill that calls for government-paid access to cosmetic surgery for female congress members with low…
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England, Where Everybody’s a Paedophile
Potentially. Everybody's a paedophile potentially. That slogan has been adopted lustily in Merrie Olde England. The beauty of it, as I have often maintained, is that it is a true…
F train Blues, Michael Palin is proud, and some misuses of statistics
Just back from my trip. I'll go through the comments from last week's posts later today and catch up. Meanwhile, here are a few interesting stories. That F'ing train! You've…
Podcast Radio Show – Episode #3: Call the Health Police!
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_07oct2009_0003.mp3[/podcast] On today's episode: What is health? Herr Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore: "a degree of adaptation to the organism's environment so nearly complete that there is no irritation." Health…
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The Case of the Rape-rape Patrol: a 17th precinct mini-mystery
We last met Officer Hannigan and Sergeant Fitzgerald in The Case of the Missing Global Warming and The Age of Stupid "Sarge, we got a call." Officer Hannigan motioned to…