Monday's Child

1.  Which state has the worst drivers?

2.  Wrong answers may not be bad.  In fact, some are genius.  #2 is a joke I make all the time, and #7 and #8 are especially well played.

3.  Conservative marriage gap.   Single women are Democrats, but many become Republicans if they have daughters.

4.  I assume Angus has already investigated "And Vinyly".

5.  So rich folks really believed that "If you like your health care, you can keep it?" crap?  Somebody has to pay for all this.  And if we are going to give huge subsidies to the poor, who is going to pay for it?  You can favor this if you want, but why think it would be free?

MOREMOREMORE!



6.  Robot support law.

7.  Climate change salesman perpetrates "fraud of massive proportions."  But we're sure that his actual scientific work was pristine and honest.  Because...well, I'm not sure why.

8.  The U.S. takes another step toward becoming Venezuela.

9.  David Simon has some views.  But they range from simply wrong to inexplicable.

10.  War is hard.  But it's not THIS hard.

11.  Democrats claim they care about the poor.  But they mostly care about the wealthy.  DISgusting.

12.  I have, at times, been tempted to do something like this.

13.  Bell ringer gets bell rung for saying "happy holidays!"

14.  I haven't seen the speech, so it may have mentioned religion in several ways (though, why can't an individual do that?).  The problem is that if he had called "The Golden Rule" by a different name, "Kant's Cat Imp", it would have been fine.  I guess it's time kids learned that they can say what they want, and that the state will TELL them what they want.

15.  Fear the phase transition!

16.  The further to the left the school's culture, the more repressive. This case is nearly "Minority Report":  someone MIGHT be offended.  Not one person can be shown actually to have taken offense, however.

17.  The problem may not be "zero tolerance" for guns, but "zero common sense" for profs.

18.  A brave pup.  Hard to believe he didn't run when the train was coming.

19.  It bugs me when people walk and use their phone to text, read FB, etc.  So, since she was okay, some schadenfreude here.

20.  Wow!  So Santa really IS a person of color.  Must be very upsetting for poor Aryan Megyn.

21.  Lord of the Wring, and other images.  From the same site:  Why winter has the best full moons.  (And the full moon last week was really beautiful)

22. Department of Illogical Redundancy Department. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eagleania.

23.  Great unironic abstracts. Three hundred and forty students were presented with descriptions of 44 psychology courses and asked to rate their interest in taking each course. Student interest in taking quantitative vs non quantitative courses was very low; the mean interest in statistics courses was nearly 6 SDs below the mean interest in non quantitative courses.   Maybe if more of them had taken statistics they would know what SDs are.

23.  Some of the best reading on the Web is now the comments on Amazon.  Here is an example.  I liked the person who suggested it was an ideal gift for your Congressman.

24.  On the NC "experiment" in cutting unemployment benefits.  Not clear it's working very well.

25.  RSA and NSA?  Coincidence?  I DON'T THINK SO!  Call Oliver Stone.  Oh, wait, he's not interested, because he trusts Obama, so the government can do anything it wants.  Oh, wait again, was I ever wrong about Oliver Stone.  A snake?  Call Oliver Stone!   I can't believe that I am more than half in agreement with Oliver Stone.  (Though I thought this movie was surprisingly good, and actually somewhat fair in its depiction).

26.  Condom commercials.  Me gusta.

27.  This is a joke.  Especially if it's serious.

28.  Auto-correct.