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Will the new Congress end earmarks?
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Take two grains of salt and call me in the morning
Pertussis (whooping cough) is coming back, and it IS a serious disease. Bullshit analysis like this, committing a glaring ecological fallacy, doesn’t help. Unless ethnic group and socio-economic status is tied directly to each individual case of whooping cough, we don’t know–and cannot infer–jack. Tip from the Instapundit, who should have been a bit more Read more
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Get logical!
Everything you wanted to know about logical fallacies in one handy chart. Tip from the Corner. Read more
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Wear your farookin’ helmet!
San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez has died from from a head injury in a bicycle accident; he was not wearing a helmet. Some folks don’t wear helmets because they think the helmet makes them look foolish. Does this guy look foolish? When I teach about odds ratios and contingency tables, I use the results of Read more
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Math stimulus!
Does this mean I can bring an electrical cattle prod to my lectures? Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more
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Here it comes!
Just in case you thought nothing really cool ever happens out here in Great Unwashed Jesusland, check out this: Tip from American Digest, where vanderLeun is a bit less grumpy lately. Read more
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Day of the Dead at UTSA
Best Fest, UTSA’s annual fall festival–where student organizations do the bulk of their fundraising–is a sort of hit-or-miss event. This year the Campus Activity Board picked a winner with the Day of the Dead. Another free slideshow by Smilebox Read more
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Got a party? Get a band!
Check out Warren Cook and the New American Sound. We went to a dance last night, and these guys rocked the house. Listen. Read more
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Texas university faculty, BOHICA!
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board wants to link universities’ performance to funding. Under the proposal, four-year institutions would be judged on bachelor’s degrees awarded, degrees earned by “at-risk students’ and degrees in “critical fields,” such as STEM and nursing. Some thumbsuckers in the Texas Faculty Association oppose the idea, saying that our miserable completion Read more
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This is how you can tell the Democrats are losing ground…
…they start talking about COMPROMISE. Former Secretary of State Madeline “Dances with Norks” Albright says “I have been depressed in listening in the last 24 hours when people say, ‘Don’t compromise. Democracy is about compromise — that’s what it’s about.” Hey, Grannie, how’s about all those Democrat congressmen IN THE MINORITY start compromising with the Read more
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