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or: Who is That Sitting Next To Sulzberger? Posted by olvlzl W hat would happen if you made a really bad mistake at work and someone got ki...

Posted by olvlzl I t’s too late for the Senate election in Connecticut but the Democratic Party has to take measures to prevent another Joe ...

Posted by olvlzl I n the news coverage of the murders of the school girls in Pennsylvania there was talk about the similarities between the...

George Soros is a billionaire who has funded some liberal/progressive causes. The wingnuts argue that he is single-handedly funding everyth...

These are not my animals. The cat is Magoo and the dog is Brandy. Brandy is PL's pet. I'm not sure about Magoo, but I think Magoo...

By which opening you can tell that I've been reading David Brooks again. He is an addiction... Brooks opines on the relative morality o...

The Time Magazine poll had bad news for the Bush administration and the Republican party: The poll suggests the Foley affair may have den...

This has been going around the blogosphere. I got it from Twisty . It's a video about the weird legal situation in Texas, plus you can...

This post refers to the section on CBS news where people are given some time to state their opinions on various matters. I wrote earlier th...

You can now watch Bill Moyers's program with that name if you missed it when it was broadcast earlier.

Statistics is not the same as probability theory, but the latter is used in statistics and a small detour into the wonderful world of prob...

This is the headline of a Slate post by Tim Harford. The next line says "An incendiary new explanation for childhood obesity." ...

Olvlzl, my weekend guest blogger, has started a blog on the hate crimes against women. Check it out. His idea is to have one place which ...

Don't run away. This is going to be gentle and soft and not as hard as you expect. Honest. I'm going to teach you some statisti...

Or things that are being covered up by the predatorgate, things which we should talk about now, too. One of those things : Defense Secretar...

Brad blog has the oddest piece of news , if true. It seems that Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox News gave the ex-Congressman's part...

A couple of announcements. First, I'm planning to update the blogroll in the near future. Now that I've written it down I must do ...

This is the new item in the news where a person can state his or her opinion on something. As I wrote earlier, it took CBS quite a while to...

Don't you think that extremist political stances are in some ways much closer together than they initially seem? The old idea of lookin...