Tag Archives: history

FiveThirtyEight – The Most Overrated Concept in Elections Analysis: Momentum

FiveThir­tyEight takes on the con­cept that because polls move in one direc­tion in the past, they con­tinue to move in that same direction.

This Is What I Think – Traditional Marriage Perverts the Tradition of Marriage

Tra­di­tional mar­riages, not so traditional.

The New Yorker – Filibusters and arcane obstructions in the Senate

The New Yorker with a long and detailed essay on how the Sen­ate became a bro­ken organization.

Down The Memory Hole – Paul Krugman Blog

Taxes ver­sus liv­ing stan­dard for Americans.

Last supper ‘has been super-sized’, say obesity experts – BBC News

Food por­tions in depic­tions of “The Last Sup­per” have increased right along with real serv­ing sizes.

My response to Glen Beck’s silly “We surround them”

Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly lit­tle thing in which he posted a list of 9 state­ments and said that if you believe in them to send in a pic­ture for him to do dis­play them or some­thing. This is my response to the list. Amer­ica is good. Right a coun­try is now

The Chasm Will Never Be Crossed

A recent blog post on tech­nol­ogy adop­tion made it’s way to me. The premise of the post is the idea that tech­nol­ogy is start­ing to become so ubiq­ui­tous that youth are accept­ing tech­nol­ogy with­out any hes­i­ta­tion or any great cau­tion. Ummm, no. This is the same sort of the­ory that has been passed around from