...more recent posts
fivethrityeight.com on the (lack of a) Bradley effect. I keep hearing that this is going to doom Obama, but the facts just don't back it up. Of course maybe the Presidential race is somehow different, but I don't see why it should be.
in case you missed it...ron suskind in a bikini.
golden oldies -- templars sue pope.
bray of pigs
Some yahoo who "had gone to a racing school in Florida" seems to have forgotten lesson #1, use your eyes. Under California law, he could have been charged with a felony.
vanity fair spoofs new yorker cover.
2004 Ohio election tampering case still moving forward?
One of the more delightful and interesting quotes comes from Arnebeck, concerning what he expects to discover as the stay is lifted: "[W]e anticipate Mr. Rove will be identified as having engaged in a corrupt, ongoing pattern of corrupt activities specifically affecting the situation here in Ohio."
Science News has a write up on baseball / political statistics junkie Nate Silver, and they don't even mention his (great) website fivethirtyeight.com!
How Bush Destroyed Federal Firefighting
The Basin Complex Fire has torched one of my favorite backbacking areas in the Ventana Wilderness.
Thank goodness the California National Guard has so much of their equipment and people in Iraq. No more forest fires in Baghdad!