UPDATE: Reader Stephen Dawson has kindly shown where I made a very stupid error. This error caused me to label the y-axis incorrectly in the third picture below. It also causes the […]
New Arcsine Climate Forecast: Hot and Cold!
If you weren’t worried before, then take a look at this shocking new climate forecast! No, only kidding. This is the real forecast: Sorry. Can’t help myself. Here are four more “forecasts”. […]
Veteran’s Day
My Grandpa—my mom’s dad—Owen Johnston, enlisted in the army during World War II. He already had kids at the time, but joined anyway. He served in Patton’s Third Army and made it […]
I have always liked P.J. O’Rourke
Be sure to read through page 2, where you will read: Conservatives should never say to voters, “We can lower your taxes.” Conservatives should say to voters, “You can raise spending. You, […]
Michael Crichton and SETI
Michael Crichton, as you will have heard by now, is dead. Unfortunately. The Wall Street Journal today reprinted an excerpt of a speech Crichton gave called “Aliens Cause Global Warming.” Regular readers […]
Paper churning
It is a cliche, but it is true, that academics must publish or perish. Papers, and more papers, and more papers still, are what makes for a professorial life. It’s often—it’s very […]
Congratulations President Obama
I recall when Bush filius won his first term. I received emails from several of my lefty friends, whom I love, expressing outrage, shock, horror, etc. One even said, and this is […]
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas”
Those are the words of Warren Buffet, who warned of the coming credit crisis. Buffet—one of the very few—had little faith in the “complicated, computer-drive models systems that many financial giants relay […]
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