Was this election yellow journalism’s finest hour? Mark Sumner at Daily Kos thinks it came close: “Thank you, media. You did your job. You lovingly cobbled together boogeymen straight out of central casting: masked brown men lopping off American heads, and a disease out of the Africa t[...]
Archive for November 13th, 2014
November 13th, 2014 - 5:56 pm § in Misc.
Raise Your Hand If You Love Your Capitalist Health Care
Of course, it’s a trick question, because no one in America has capitalist health care. Capitalism assumes free markets, competition, and free choice. None of those things exist in American health care. Just ask Megan Rothbauer. She was unconscious when an ambulance crew took her to an o[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS: Huckabee and God
Sitting watching TV, the phone rang. Comcast showed a number someplace in Florida. I answered the phone. A new friend from Florida wanted to know whether I believe that we should have national prayer day. This friend told me that national prayer day was being threatened by militant atheists. Whil[...]
Jewish Antisemites
Not all those opposed to Israel are anti Semites. and not all anti-Semites are anti Israel. But some anti-Semites are Jewish and anti-Israel. Click the image.[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 11:13 am § in Politics
What If They Built That Pipeline And No Barrels Came?
Now that Keystone XL is no longer economically viable because of falling oil prices, several Democrats in Congress have agreed to join with Republicans in approving its construction. But what good is a pipeline for oil that costs more to produce than it sells for? This isn’t the first time t[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 9:10 am § in Misc.
The anniversary of a Supreme Court Decision
(c) SM Schwartz 2012 On November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott led by Martin Luther King. Five decades later, the Governor of Massachusetts campaigned for Barack Obama to be re-elected President of the United States.[...]
Impeach Obama
Petition Project LET IT BE KNOWN… The President of the United States of America Must be Impeached Please sign this petition requesting Congress immediately launch an investigation into the president’s unconstitutional and impeachable offenses.[...]
Science: Why Science Can be Wrong
A paper (really more a news piece) in Nature launches a major attack on the commonly used and taught statistical methods. The focus is on Fisher and the T test, the pervasive “p” values students from high school to grad school learn to sue as a measure of reality. Everyone from politi[...]