Briggs

European Union Crisis Postponed, Money Travels Back Through Time

The World Series wasn't the only event in the majors to be postponed because of inclement circumstance. The crisis in the EU, originally scheduled to culminate last night, was deferred…

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Feel Better? Antidepressant Use Rises 400%, White Women Top Lists

Pill popping for pleasure pushes past previous records. Or so says the CDC in their report Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2005â€“2008. "From 1988â€“1994 through…

Statistics

What BEST Means And What It Doesn’t

This post is for you to link into discussions proliferating across the internet which are filled with error. Temperature Changes BEST has confirmed what everybody---and I mean everybody---already believed: that…

Statistics

UN: Population To Swell To 15 Billion By 2100

It took two- to three-hundred thousand years for humans to break the 7 billion mark, which it is scheduled to do sometime late this year or early in 2012. But…

Statistics

D.J. Keenan’s And My BEST Methodology Reviews

Doug Keenan was asked by The Economist to have a gander at the statistics developed by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. He did so. We must resist extensive…

Statistics

Richard Muller Gives Permission To Be Climate Skeptic, Shows Why

Update See my review of the BEST methodology here. Physicist Richard Muller has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal that should be read by everyone (The Case Against Global-Warming…

Statistics

Your Belief In God Is Causing Your Denial Of AGW

Update Simon Donner has a blog post on this paper, which links back here. Since all comments are closed after 8 days (to battle spam), I'm moving this post to…

Culture

Louisiana Bans Cash For Used Goods

After graduating from Southwest Paralegal College---a for-profit Lafayette-based school which has since vanished into the aether; suspiciously, even the Wayback Machine1 has no information on this august seat of higher…

JH on Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just SkyrocketedApril 24, 2024
Cloudbuster, I know that! However, Riker and Troi remained platonic throughout TNG. And, again, I think that Riker would not…
Incitadus on Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just SkyrocketedApril 24, 2024
I don't think Briggs has a problem with women just the manner in which they have been weaponized to destroy…
Brian (bulaoren) on Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just SkyrocketedApril 24, 2024
If my French fries come out cold, does that make me a victim?
Cloudbuster on Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just SkyrocketedApril 24, 2024
JH, Riker would say anything to get laid.
JH on Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just SkyrocketedApril 24, 2024
Briggs, Riker supports Troi’s ambition to become a commander. Maybe we are talking about different Rikers.