R Lectures from wmbriggs.com This is the homepage for the links to all of the R lectures. Look for this on the main page under Statistics. Each lecture is followed…

In 1977, on the Barney Miller episode "Blizzard"---for those under 40: a cop sitcom---a man who was poking people with a sharp stick was arrested. The man wanted to bring…

Somebody---or some bodies---have been planting pro-Obama stories at newspapers all over the world. The pen names of that body are Ellie Light, Mark Spivey, Gloria Elle, and Jan Chen. That…

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: Good: Nuclear Doomsday Clock Turned Back; Bad: Board Didn't Factor In Iran As always, thanks to the editors, particularly David Steinberg and Aaron Hanscom,…

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: Actually, Weather Is Climate Once again, thanks to the editors David Steinberg and Aaron Hanscom for coming up with a title and a tagline.…

The Scott Brown, Martha Coakley race is over. The results are not surprising nor undesirable. This is because anybody who dares call another---close your eyes if you cannot stand foul…

George Will is not a reactionary. He is not known for fireworks. When you think of sober, you think George Will. So when the man writes something like this, we…

Pajamas Media---my new pals--conducted, or rather commissioned, their own poll in the Scott Brown-Martha Coakley race. It found, after calling more, but reporting on 946 "likely" voters, Brown ahead by…