Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Friend of the blog Jennifer informs us that Connecticut has just atoned for witch trials centuries ago. She predicts that by 2350, we may have some sort of atonement for the drug war.
Although, I am informed by certain libertarian bloggers that given the state of the science at the time, Connecticut was right [...]

Driving back today. You people completely screwed the war up while I was gone.

By Thoreau
Despite all our wailing and gnashing of teeth over the suckitude of the punditocracy these last few weeks (well, more than just the last few weeks, but especially recently, given the anniversary of our latest war of aggression), I think Pennywise managed to sum the problem up in one line.

By Thoreau
Online simulations of physics experiments are of course abundant, but this is a particularly nice collection.

By Thoreau
I have been tough on Megan McArdle, but her article on the body count in Iraq seems reasonable. She reports that some of the higher estimates may be off, and those who want to can bash her for that, but she makes the important point that even if the body count is “only” [...]

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 [...]