Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Megan McArdle is taking a lot of heat, and she’s saying a lot in response. And some of it makes sense. But then she tosses out something like this:
Obviously, there are people who were right about the war for the right reasons, and we should examine what their thought process was–not merely [...]

By Thoreau
If you have 100 customers, and if 4 of those 100 customers upgrade their purchase to include an item that the store is pushing, that means that my wife has gotten 4% of her customers to upgrade, above her 3% quota.
Yes, it is true that 4 out of 100 is 1 out of 25, [...]

By Mona
With some Republican’s still having shocked hissy fits (Kmiec had, after all, been a campaign adviser to Mitt Romney), I write at Art of the Possible about Kmiec’s interview with Beliefnet, wherein, among other things, the ardently pro-life Kmiec notes that abortion is not the only issue subject to Catholic social teaching. There [...]

By Thoreau
Everybody is freaking out over Harvard announcing female-only gym hours in response to requests from Muslim students who don’t like showing skin and curves in front of men.  What most people don’t realize is that the female-only gym phenomenon has been spreading across America since 1992.  The fifth columnists spreading this Islamo-fascist threat are [...]

By Thoreau
I’m reading “The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Priscilla McMillan. So far I’m just on the events leading up to the development of the H Bomb; the take-down of the man hasn’t started yet. I was telling my wife about it, and she asked me the standard question posed to physicists [...]