Archive for the american exceptionalism Category
Privacy Is Bad For Everyone
236 - The Room - Logical Fallacies: Correlation vs. Causation
“Think about this for a second. What do Osama bin Laden, Ted Kazinski, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Charlie Manson have in common? The FBI was unable to read their emails.”
Online Bookies Favor Barack as of 02-15-08
Online Bookies Back Barack Obama in US Election - 02-15-08
Leading online gambling website, Bodog, is offering odds on who will be named Democratic candidate for the 2008 US Presidential Election. As of today ‘[02-15-08], Bodog is offering odds of 3.33 for Clinton and 1.27 for Obama.
In His House There Are Many McMansions
An overlaying set of maps would be swell, and would lead to many convenient correlations. You know what I’m saying. Instead of arguing with tiresome folks, one could just point to a map set and say “But look, divorces rates are lowest in the bluest of states!” and stuff like that. Someone should make such a nesting map set, and that someone will not be me.
Prisoner 345: Campaign to free Sami Haj held in Guantanamo | Campaign to free Sami Haj an Al Jazeera cameraman held in Guantanamo
The people imprisoned in Gitmo don’t have to be faceless. They also don’t have to be guilty of anything. Let’s have some goddamned trials, enough is enough. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and all that UV radiation will kill the fungus that is growing on the soul of the U.S.
