Category: Asides

This is a very inter­est­ing analy­sis of Cit­i­zens Unit­ed. 

AsABlack­Man com­ments on I’m Con­gress­man Jim McGov­ern, and I just intro­duced two con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments to over­turn Cit­i­zens Unit­ed, get the mon­ey out of pol­i­tics, and restore “We, the peo­ple.”

**Edit** So I guess it’s not as unpop­u­lar as I thought it would be >_> Thank you for the red­dit gold! For those of you who want a TLDR, I’m *real­ly…

Some­times it feels like this try­ing to get a meet­ing with a stu­dent. 😉

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 01/22/2013 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

I’m not shar­ing this because of the top­ic or the author’s point of view. Instead, he made a fas­ci­nat­ing obser­va­tion: “How much free speech do we have? It depends on the medi­um. Maybe the sequence from less to more cen­sored is: 1. Con­ver­sa­tion. 2. Email and oth­er pri­vate writ­ing. 3. Blog post. 4. Poor­ly-writ­ten book. 5. Arti­cle in minor mag­a­zine. 6. Well-writ­ten book. 7. Arti­cle in pres­ti­gious mag­a­zine. 8. Text­book. From one step to the next (e.g., from con­ver­sa­tion to email), views become less diverse.” I am not sure I buy the mid­dle points of his con­tin­u­um (although maybe he means by “well-writ­ten book” some­thing more like “con­tro­ver­sial book writ­ten by some­one oth­er­wise cul­tur­al­ly respectable”).

Seth’s Blog » Blog Archive » “The Most Influ­en­tial Tree in the World”

When the fig­ures were pub­lished the extra­or­di­nary lack of data under­ly­ing the blade of the Yamal hock­ey stick caused a minor sen­sa­tion. In fact the high point at the end of the graph was shown to have…

This reminds me of some arti­cles I read back in school about epis­te­mol­o­gy. The mouseover text on this one is par­tic­u­lar­ly illu­mi­nat­ing.

xkcd: Debug­ger

Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1163/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/debugger.png. Select­ed Comics. Search com­ic …

This seems wise for those who aspire to tenure.

Career advice from Richard Thaler

My advice for young researchers at the start of their career is… Work on your own ideas, not your advisor’s ideas (or at least in addi­tion to her ideas). And spend more time think­ing and less time rea…

I actu­al­ly had great expe­ri­ences with group projects back in col­lege, but this is still fun­ny.

Neila Lott orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

Group projects. What they teach you.

I feel as if I learn more from this blog (GetRe­li­gion) than almost any oth­er source. Fas­ci­nat­ing details.

Media cov­er­age of Roe at 40

As the 40th anniver­sary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court deci­sion takes place on Tues­day, a major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans – for the first time – believe abor­tion should be legal in all or most cas­es, accordin…

I have often been mys­ti­fied at the way Chris­tian­i­ty is por­trayed in the media. It’s almost as though those who write the scripts/report the news/craft the essays don’t actu­al­ly know any seri­ous Chris­tians.

Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in America?Who Owns “Evan­gel­i­cal­ism” in Amer­i­ca?

A lit­tle while ago, I had writ­ten two pieces (here and here) mak­ing the case for defin­ing evan­gel­i­cal­ism accord­ing to its the­o­log­i­cal dis­tin

Spur­geon was a boss.

Spur­geon and Church Car­ni­vals (updat­ed) | NT Resources

Input per­son­al prop­er­ty and asked in no cach advance cach advance forms and afford the cri­sis. Hard to default or if that pay­day loans pay­day loans offer some­thing like instant cash. Life hap­pens and …

I should give this to peo­ple in Chi Alpha who say they want to learn how to play.

How to Final­ly Play the Gui­tar: 80/20 Gui­tar and Min­i­mal­ist Music

When will you stop dream­ing and start play­ing? (Pho­to: Musi­cian “Lights”, Cred­it: Shan­di-lee) I’ve always want­ed to play the gui­tar. It start­ed as a kid, lis­ten­ing to my dad play …