Notes in Samsara

It doesn't surprise me that Baptist colleges have problems with little things like freedom of inquiry . GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The request se...

Link Rocker Richards pardoned at last Rolling Stone member Keith Richards is set to be pardoned - for a 31-year-old driving offence in...

With the continuing attack on science by the right, I think it's helpful to list a few sites: There's the Genetics Policy Institute ...

By way of Media Matters catching Rush Limbaugh in yet another lie , I'm reminded of this article by a one Michael Fumento over at Natio...

Carter is no more trained to pontificate on bioethics than my son's goldfish .

I wish Israeli spokespeople could go 24 hours without using the word "terrorist" or its deriviatives . They've got military c...

James K Galbraith lays out some pretty persuasive evidence that the Mexican election was stolen, and the Bush regime couldn't be happie...

Yes, folks even Joe Carter gets something right once in a while. Give him credit for finding this article about Wal-Mart trying to create...

US News & World Report whitewashes the Lieberman narrative : Vote for Alito before he voted against him. Voted for the bankruptcy bill b...

The Carpetbagger's caught this bit on Dobson : The Dobsons were members of the Nazarene Church, a denomination of evangelical Christian...

It's not just Europe anymore. ..

I got the idea of the Grizzly Fund from him, but laddering CDs until October I figured out all by myself.

In the recent brouhaha over in the Middle East, the same old tired old arguments and demagoguery gets trotted out. For example, take the r...

From the puff-piece article in the NY Times on the so-far losing campaign of Lieberman: Mr. Lieberman was scheduled to attend a Puerto Rica...

Derbyshire's debunking of Gilder is good , 'cept that he doesn't get information, and its essentially random structure either. B...

I have no idea, but things are getting pretty wigged out: Horrible week for the stock markets. Israel is getting pretty much into a regiona...

I have been awfully busy deriving something that in certain contexts is the greatest thing since sliced bread; some of the best work I'v...

Here's the outline of a course he teaches . Unfortunately, the slides from his talk at ISIT-2006 are not up. What is obvious to Frey, ...

Calculated Risk . Looks very dense with nice stats...

There's an awful lot going on at Daily Kos , which is the American equivalent of China's "Democracy Wall" these days. It i...