Why you should always read Cosma Shalizi

Reading Delong reminded me that I had not been to Cosma Shalizi’s Three Toed Sloth lately, so I rectified that error and was reminded again why this is a bad mistake to mix. Read this post.  It captures quickly and utterly intelligibly what I spend much more time arguing with much less clarity:  you don’t [...]

And Further to the implied Ovine insult to my GOP friends…some brain candy

Enjoy: Trust me on this.  You want to watch this one. Update: Doesn’t often happen, but beat Daily Kos by three days on this one.  Got to note it on the rare occasions when I’m even slightly ahead of the zeitgeist.

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” — GOP “budget” edition

I feel for Bohner et al. Much fun has been had with the sheer comic absurdity of the GOP “Budget” proposal announced with such fanfare today.  As TPM notes at the prior link, Ezra Klein has perhaps the most fun it is possible to have with this one whilst fully clothed. I’m not going to [...]

Tiptoeing back into blogging and I stumble upon…

this comment thread responding to DougJ’s Balloon Juice post on Michelle Bachmann’s call for an armed and dangerous Minnesotan citizenry to rise up against energy legislation. Standing out among much fine snark,  Kommrade Reproductive Vigor writes: If you could weaponize idiocy Michelle would be a one woman arsenal of doom. Precise, accurate, delightful. I have [...]

Heads Up! — Pigeons on the Loose at So Simple A Beginning

It’s not just this blog that has suffered a bad case of the slows lately; so has So Simple A Beginning a group-ish effort to blog against The Origin of Species in anticipation of that books 150th anniversary coming up this November. But now I’m pleased to report that we’re finally getting on to Chapter [...]

Apologies

For near total blog silence over the last month.  The hideous realities of academic admin have overtaken me, and I’ve almost forgotten how to spell my own name.  (X….his mark — ed.) But with spring break upon us, and a temporary respite from all the delights of just one more, I-promise-you-it-will-be-quick-meeting, blogging resumes. It’s a [...]

Having Already Posted This Oddity Before (Obama/Emerald Isle edition)…

I’ll merely allow you to blame Brad DeLong for this earworm. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

I know I’ve been AWOL and this isn’t about science at all, but…

I do find it really odd (I’ve just taken my medication for the day, and so can express myself so mildly) that the members of the same mass media organizations that worry whether or not President Barack Hussein Obama (I still love writing that) has taken on too much as he attempts to undo the [...]

Comrade Fidel Hearts Him Some Statistical Reasoning

Who knew? (h/t Tom Verducci.)  Fidel intelligently criticizing play in the World Baseball Classic by the Japanese team and his own Cubans with a nod to the insights gained from sabremetric approaches to the game. Ordinarily I ‘d go on here with some pieties about the importance of statistical reasoning, and note that baseball’s mathematicians [...]

Because it’s Friday: One Giant Step For Who? department….