By Jun 11,2008

Correlation and causality

What’s the saying? “Correlation does not imply causality”? Keep that in mind when reading nonsense like this: Women have made less progress toward gender equality in the Middle East than...

By Jun 11,2008

How much trouble is the NBA in?

On the last day of May in 2002, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Sacramento Kings in the sixth game of the Western Conference Finals in one of the worst...

By Jun 10,2008

High Noon as neocon allegory

No, seriously. I’m glad Kyle Smith wrote this essay, because it’s something that has bothered me for a while but I’ve never been able to put into words. As a...

By Jun 10,2008

Obamaweek part III

I’m kind of tired of writing about how much Newsweek loves Obama. So I’ll just link to Mark Hemingway’s takedown of their most recent puff piece: Well, if the Obama...

By Jun 10,2008

Journos and Blogging

JVL points us to a (completely unscientific, as far as I can tell) survey of how newspapers would react to their people having a personal blog. Apparently, 44% of newspaper...