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June 30, 2010
Category: Propaganda
From Media Matters: It is difficult to understand how so many errors could be crammed into one simple chart, merely by accident. It is even harder to understand how the artist could end up with a straight line, after incorporating...
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June 28, 2010
Category: Chatter
Sharron Angle has said some pretty obtuse things before, but for the most part, I've resisted the temptation to comment. But this one is a gem: The 16-page flier, available at TPMM, accuses gay people (aka "sodomites", "perverts") of everything...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 6:48 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2010
Category: Humor
Clearly, this man is a candidate for the Darwin Award. K. Wayne McLeod has been charged -- posthumously -- with running a Ponzi scheme that victimized an estimated 260 law enforcement agents. He deliberately solicited hundreds of people, all of...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:33 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2010
Category: Personal
(From five years ago!) There is a restaurant called Pelagos. The name means "from the sea," in Greek. It is underground, but has a patio open to the sky. A staircase leads from the sidewalk to the subterranean patio. The...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 12, 2010
Category: Chatter
This one is useful for very few persons. The story is this: I wanted to get one of those mats that goes under a treadmill, to protect the floor. So I went to Sears, where I got the treadmill, because...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:07 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 6, 2010
Category: Science in the Media
XKCD usually is pretty good; this one, however, is a brillant commentary on science journalism. People forget that once an event has happened, the probability of that event is exactly 1, and the probability of all other outcomes is exactly...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
