There was a Reuters story in my local newspaper recently entitled “Pay Gap Between Sexes Proves Persistent”. It was amusing because it was researched by the AAUW, the American Association of University Women. What would you expect them to find? That women had made progress? No, and I seem to recall that the NAACP found [...]
While the news media is trying hard to keep the explicit IMs of Representative Mark Foley on the front pages, it is also trying hard not to know about or print the explicit passages written in books to far more people by Senatorial candidate James Webb in Florida.
Foley is an R and Webb is a [...]
I see by the newspaper that Speaker of the House Denny Hastert is in trouble. Not because he did something, but because he didn’t do something—fast enough.
Did Mr. Hastert fail to kill Usama binLaden?
Did Mr. Hastert play sex games with a young page girl in his office while on duty?
Did Mr. Hastert lie to a [...]
So after writing my last post to this blog I have been looking for some newspaper somewhere to relate what the Australians said to their radical Islamic citizens. Can you imagine that news media people have not found this story worth repeating?
Amazing!
Maybe I was too hard on the media. And then [...]
Recently my son sent me the address to a New York Times article.
So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You
By GINA KOLATA
Published: July 30, 2006
The past 100 years has seen a change from small, sickly people to humans who are so robust their ancestors are almost unrecognizable.
The gist of the story was that someone [...]
There is an interesting story on the Internet today about the use of world food supplies for ethanol. That is, the more corn that is converted into alcohol, the less food there will be for starving people to eat. “That means fuel prices can drive up food prices, bad news for the two billion people [...]
Now that North Korea has demonstrated, sort of, its expertise in rocketry by firing off a few scud-type missiles and an ICBM that flopped, I suppose we in the U.S. should be shaking in our boots.
North Korea wisely counted on American Media to blow everything out of proportion in an effort to find some way [...]
This morning my local newspaper carried the story that the temperature was warm and had not been so warm in four hundred years. I assumed that the subject was global temperature and not the temperature in Southern California, which seems to have been cooler this year.
With this story, the proponents of “global warming caused by [...]
In a recent Reuters news story, some eighty-five users of cell phones had malignant brain tumors and used cell phones “a lot.” What was the scientific quantity of use? “A lot.” Big science employed here! So a correlation was established by the writer, between cell phone use and malignant tumors. Two valuable rules of evidence [...]
Last week I was going through my dwindling library. In it was a shelf of of books about classic economic thought. There were several on price theory. That is right, the theory of how prices are set in the marketplace. I seem to recall that only wage theory was more complicated.
The reason I was going [...]