Jul 22 2006
He nails it, first here:
First of all, it’s pretty difficult for me to wrap my brain around the idea of taking a summertime vacation to Beirut. Personally, I prefer Disneyworld. Or maybe a nice Caribbean cruise. But Lebanon? You take your pregnant wife into war-torn Lebanon?
Then here:
Amazingly, we’re not even going to charge these ungrateful […]
Jul 22 2006
I hate Apple. It’s one of the most stupidly run businesses in existence. I hate Macs. I hate user-friendly computers that want to be my friend, I really hate computers that are designed to be “fun” (what juvenile crap that is), and I really really hate computers that try to be cute, making cute noises […]
Jul 22 2006
Schröder probably would have written a response of solidarity:
This week, Ahmadinejad fired off a note to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. Ahmadinejad probably could not have picked a more inappropriate recipient:
A letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the German chancellor made statements about Israel and the Holocaust that are “not acceptable,†the government said […]
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Jul 22 2006
But no thank you, I do not want to see a TV special with people whining about Katrina and the fact that they still have no place to live (and whose fault is that?) I was sick of Katrina about a week after it happened, particularly the whining by the idiots who didn’t get the […]
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Jul 22 2006
I found this article, courtesy of SwannBlog:
Two interesting articles recently crossed my path. One was an analysis of the growth in state spending under Gov. Ed Rendell done by the The conclusion of both reports is inescapable. Ed Rendell has presided over the largest spending spree in state history. He has shuffled money around like […]
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Jul 22 2006
While in grad school, I was surrounded by stat illiterates. After the hundredth question about how to interpret the stats in a paper, or the two hundredth “you can’t do that!” objection, I wrote up an intro to basic statistical concepts and interpreting statistics for social scientists. It’s written for math illiterates, and yes, it’s […]
