Nate Silver became the most trusted voice in statistics in the 2008 elections via his blog Five-Thirty-Eight which applied baseball stat numbers crunching to polls to craft a big picure of where the primaries and presidential election was going. And he was right. So much so, the New York Times adopted Nate and his blog [...]
You will be comforted by just how much anonymous goodness there really is in the world. You read about these people and realize that people you don’t even know are leading lives of real dignity and goodness, and you hear about crazy, but it’s rarer than you think. At the end of his comments Monday [...]
I really appreciate Jon Stewart’s earnestness about the importance of people respecting each other’s points of view and being able to work constructively together. I too believe in treating everyone, including my political opponents, the way I would want to be treated, with respect and courtesy no matter how heated the debate. But to hold [...]
If the National Mall is considered the “prime time” for rallies, then Comedy Central was not ready. I can’t say what happened, what was funny, or what was what on the stage where Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert MC’d because I couldn’t SEE or HEAR anything. Since there was no way to get past the [...]
Earlier I mentioned my widening enthusiasm gap for Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” October 30th. But now that the location has been revealed (between 3rd and 7th Streets, NW – west of the U.S. Capitol I’m guessing); and the benefactor announced, I’m feeling perky again. No pun on the final punch line in this [...]
