As Kitty Kelly’s hatchet-job on the Bush family nears publication, lots of people are linking to these additional revelations about George W. Bush by the Poorman. And you know what? So am I, because they’re great. Go read, especially if you are a staff writer for the Kerry campaign.
As a spin-off from Daniel’s discussion of whether the DEM04 contract is overvalued on the Iowa Electronic Markets, here’s a version of the trend surface he calculated that shows differences between the Black-Scholes valuation and the observed market price over time (you can look at it in smaller PNG format or better-quality PDF). I created […]
Alan Keyes said today that “Christ would not vote for Barack Obama,” apparently because Obama is pro-choice. But clearly the reason that Jesus would not vote for Obama is that there is just no way He would move from California to Illinois in the first place.
A number of journalists have gotten upset this week over the fact that my uncle Seán was invited to address the parliamentary meeting of Fianna Fáil, the main coalition partner in the Irish government. Together with a small group of like-minded people, Seán’s been responsible for building an organization devoted to social policy analysis in […]
Some contributors in the discussion thread on crutches (if you see what I mean) bring up other ambulatory aids by-the-by, and Bad Jim says:
Can anyone who remembers the 19th century think of canes as anything but a weapon?
The 19th century? What about the 1970s? I remember being caned at school. On the palm of the […]
Seeing as Kevin is wondering whether M&Ms have gotten smaller since the last time he looked[1], my imponderable for the day is this: Why is it that in Europe (at least in my experience) patients with a sprained ankle or whatever are typically issued with forearm crutches whereas in the U.S. you get underarm crutches. […]
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