2015 archive
Denial–Not Just a River in Egypt 0
Peter St. Onge comes out as a bacon-science denier.
Gunning for a Fight 0
Over at Northjersey-dot-com, Jonathan Zimmerman suggests the gunnuttery is really not about guns, that, instead, guns are proxy for something else (and, no, he doesn’t mean penises).
Just read it.
(Horrifying grammatical error corrected.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Bring up children with politeness.
A family member said the child was hit in the thumb.
Correlation Is Not Causation 0
Then, again . . . .
No Place To Hide 0
Support the EFF. Click the link on the sidebar, over there.——>
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, fell to 259,250 from 263,250 the week before.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits decreased by 37,000 in the week ended Oct. 17 to 2.14 million, the fewest since November 2000.
The really big news is that Bloomberg’s “experts” were in the ballpark. I think the last time that happened was sometime in the spring.