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As promised, I’m posting all my logic puzzles over at logiduction.wordpress.com, my new blog. I will also periodically report my personal tidings, particularly my reading, over at Ex-Tangent.
Thank you all for reading this blog, and I will be forced to direct your attention over there.
This won’t be the type of return that all of you, who have so enjoyed my political commentary, might expect. I am not here to save the day and speak out with more bombastic rhetoric and be the sole voice of reason in this mess. I am not going to continue with political commentary as [...]
Just in case Bush and his Israeli followers start attacking Iran in the name of preemptively preventing a nuclear war, we should turn them in the direction of this NIE study (that’s National Intelligence Estimate, for the uninitiated). It’s not the full study, but it has all of the important conclusions.
The study says that:
We assess [...]
Magik Quilter, in the comments from yesterday’s post, proposed that I write about the girl from Hereford who won a case in which she decided that she’d avoid getting life saving heart surgery in order to “die with dignity”, reported here by the BBC.
First of all, I think this represents a wonderful step in the [...]
I’ll keep this short and sweet: you, the reader, get to pick tomorrow’s editorial. Leave a comment under this post and I’ll pick one submission to write an editorial about tomorrow.
Make the subject an unexpected one!
fivethirtyeight’s final election prediction is that Obama goes on to predict an Obama victory of 349 electoral voted to McCain’s 189. McCain also has, I kid you not, a 1% chance of winning this thing.
I’ll be brief here: it’s still possible, very possible in fact, for McCain to win. Let’s remember that fivethirtyeight uses every [...]
Today’s good, bad, and insightful:
The Good
The first two aren’t so much great as they are hilarious:
Martin Varsavsky lets us all know, that, as of today, Volkswagen is the wealthiest corporation in the world.
An Israeli child dressed up as a Palestinian gunman and took to the streets hoping to provoke a reaction from the police, [...]
Well, dear readers, it seems that I’m taking a few days’ leave to go places (really, family stuff, but you’re not supposed to know that). Since I will be without my trusty computer, that means I won’t be able to post here.
In the meantime, I have a mission for you, should you choose to [...]
Haven’t you ever wanted to be That One? How about the One? How about both? No worries — follow these 5 steps and you’ll be like the next president of the United States in absolutely no time at all.
1. Have a Funny Sounding Name
Since most of us don’t have the benefit of having a [...]
In light of the current economic troubles the world is going through right now, this seemed all too appropriate:
“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” ~Thomas Jefferson
