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My Bigfoot’s bigger than yours
Check THIS out. We have as many sightings of that non-existent creature as those fellers out West. Read more
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Correlation and the Law of Cosines
I’ve been teaching this for years, but never came up with such an excellent write-up. Sweet! Read more
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Here’s my guy, in all his glory
The Most Interesting Man in the World. Is this him, incognito? (Dr Gonzalez is also a professor in my department, and a true gentleman.) Tip from American Digest. Read more
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Chalk another one up for the Urban Chicken Movement
Knoxville, Tennessee, OKs backyard chickens, but no roosters. Some sharp feller could make some beer money with a temporary rent-a-rooster service for flocks that stop laying. The alternative is to use my Mom’s definition of a hen that’s stopped laying: a stewing chicken.Tip from the Instapundit, who is mute about his own chicken plans. Read more
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It’s starting to catch up with us…
I’ve said for decades that we have a distorted economy and value system when we give greater rewards to people who make deals than to people who make stuff. The subpar performances of AT&T and the Obama Administration are just the tip of the iceberg. Even some mainstream journalists are beginning to notice. My racket, Read more
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“You f**ked up, you trusted us.”
Michael Hard America, Soft America Barone lays into our perpetual adolescence. One of his loyal readers reads him the Riot Act from the flipside. Looking back, I guess I was lucky in 1971 with poor job prospects. The Draft Board was breathing down my neck (#23, thank you), so I enlisted in the Air Force. Read more
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If you live in New York, move to L.A. Then move to Texas
Check out this visualization of American personal migrations. Tip from Flowing Data. Update (18 June). Apparently I’m not the only one who noticed that California has net outflow, Texas net inflow. Tip from Jonah Goldberg at The Corner. Read more
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Tell me how ObamaCare will make this better
Which is worse, shingles or the paperwork required for the vaccine? Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Wind power, or just hot air?
Apparently that wind power thing isn’t working out quite as planned in the UK: Why, then, are we so “fixated” with wind?…Part of the answer may be that wind turbines are visible, tangible symbols of political commitment and moral righteousness. Mr Clegg’s party wants 15,000 of them, and the Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, also a Read more
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Here comes the “pop” for the Education Bubble
College diplomas probably aren’t going to pay off like they used to. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on higher education, often taking on huge debts along the way, many face a job market that doesn’t seem to need them. Not only is the American economy producing few new jobs of any kind, but Read more
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