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- Neighborhood Walk (2)
Gen X Revert: "My brother lives in Pittsburgh (Mt. Lebanon) and whenever I visit I realize how out of shape I am. Just walking the neighborhood with the large hills…"
- Gay Marriage in California (14)
Peter: "gbm3: Weekends are usually when I have the time to participate in blogs. But my office is moving this weekend and I may not have time to respond to…"
Jerry: "Well, you picked a good book to be incensed by, not a strawman. Perhaps you could write up a critique of some key part of the book in the future for…"
Peter: "Introduction to Christianity.…"
- Engaged Encounter Part I: House of God? (8)
whizkidforte: ""Sing of the Lord's Goodness" actually kinda reminds me of "Take Five" by the late, great jazz saxophonist Dave Brubeck. . . Not that that's a good…"
Ales Rarus
A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
You can’t get where you want to go if you don’t know where you are.
mathematics statistics
Repeat After Me: Correlation Does Not Necessarily Imply Causation (Katrina and Global Warming)
More people need to read this.
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, some commentators are jumping to the conclusion that global warming is responsible for its destructiveness. While there is a theoretical possibility that higher ocean temperatures could lead to more powerful hurricanes, no individual hurricane can be shown to be so affected. Moreover, […]
Blogging and Social Science
The
myriad of memes that cross-cross the blogosphere testify to bloggers' pleasure in
answering questions. Why not put that to good use? That's
just what some folks at MIT are doing.
Morals in Politics
Seemingly based on the Libertarian Party's political quiz, this Moral Politics quiz plots your position on a map whose axes are moral order (x) and moral rules (y). Like any such quiz, it oversimplifies matters, but it's entertaining none the less. I like that I score as […]
Seeing Purple
The fella at Electoral Vote Predictor has read my mind and produced exactly
the kind of election results map I wanted. It gives a better indication of just
how deeply divided this country is than the simple red and blue maps.
Nobody seems to care about how much healing America […]
Missing Youth
"After Abortion" has a quote posted that aims to answer the question,
"[W]hat
might've happened to all the young voters?"
