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Paul Krugman drags out the “T” word again
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is calling for the heads of "deniers" again. In his "Betraying the Planet", he says that anybody who doesn't agree with his understanding on…
Posted inCulture
One reason leftists think conservatives are idiots
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How to gamble if you must
Our title comes from a famous paper by Lester Dubbins and Leonard Savage which appeared at the beginning of the Bayesian Theoretical Resurgence, a movement which, I am delighted to…
Never too old to learn
I'm at Cornell, teaching my now-annual statistics course to a group who have come up from the city and are there enrolled in a Masters program. Cornell requires students to…
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Derek Jeter’s Tailor in trouble with the law
The story is confusing, but Derek Jeter's tailor is having legal difficulties. Either Ramchandani, who is the tailor, or one of his ex-pupils is having immigration troubles. Judging by the…
On tolerance
Conversation was thick at the Cigar Inn today. Mostly over lunatic James W. von Brunnm who walked into Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust museum and murdered guard Stephen T. Johns, who had…
Posted inCulture
Reasons the Apocalypse is not near
For reasons that are obvious to all, I have have been studying the imminent arrival of the apocalypse. Whether you are a Christian millenarian, or you thought the Mayans were…
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The Noble Savage Altruistic Warrior
There is a charming myth among idealists that before industrialization and its accoutrements, such as patriarchy and pollution, mankind lived an entirely peaceful existence. That is, there was no war.…
