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Google’s Eric Schmidt & Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Blaze Path Of Ugliness

This is a picture of Google's Eric Schmidt & Chicago's Rahm "Crisis" Emanuel from today's Wall Street Journal story Google Move Buoys Chicago Tech Hub. Chicago! The city of the…

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How Good Are You At Making Sports Predictions?

I'm traveling today so I thought I'd remind us of ShortBurst sports, Edgehogs as was. Make picks in all major sports, even the God-help-us Olympics, and track your prognosticatory prowess.…

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A Depressing [Real Sad] Churchill Quotation—Contest

As I this morning scanned Facebook, I ran across the image below. Read it through and pause for a moment before continuing. Notice anything strange? I was so intrigued by…

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Another Try With A New Look

Unless there is a general revolt, this is it. Tweaks can of course be made---fonts darkened or lightened, background colors shaded, some widgets shifted. But this is it. One of…

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What Do You Think Of The New Look? (Back To Old: Temporarily)

Everybody gets to vote. Though, like in any socialist paradise, there is only one candidate. This one. This new design, I mean. The old one was growing stale, it was…

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Personality Predicted By Pedal Extremity Wrappings?

Fats Waller knew which end was up. The mark of mate-ability, he infallibly sang, was to be had by looking down. Shakespeare agreed: he wrote, "Farewell Love and all thy…

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“Say, That’s A Nice Hat”; Or, I Get Touched

I should have known better. Me. Mr Street Smarts. A man who has actually vacationed in Detroit. On purpose. A guy who has walked all over New York City, trudged…

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Worst Invention Of All Time?

Your help is urgently needed to decide what is the worst invention of all time. Any man-made item, and only man-made items, are eligible. Rocks, for instance, no matter to…

gareth on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Thanks for doing this Briggs :-) Am (partially) following... (by which I mean that I'm getting some or most of…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
My writer friend describes a memorable lesson in statistics, given in her office where she was health editor at a…
Rightful Freedom on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
"That everyone ought to be equal is a moral idea which simply never occurred to anyone in antiquity; not even…
Cary D Cotterman on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
If DEI continues, it will be the destruction of everything humanity has achieved. You'd think that then the woke would…
Johnno on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
Equality is irrational and contrary to nature. But when a man can become a woman, nature can become artificial, numbers…