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Regional differences in voting for Barack Obama
I’ve been playing with quantitative data and mapping recently (numbers & maps are two things I’m rather preoccupied with). I was curious as to geographic variation in support for Barack Obama as a function of the % of a county … Continue reading
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Magical thinking watch: the social engineering strain
Westchester County in New York just settled a lawsuit charging it with not building enough subsidized housing for minorities. Announcing the settlement, HUD Deputy Secretary Ron Sims observed that studies show that zip codes can predict life expectancy and illness, … Continue reading
Meanwhile, over in Taiwan
While the Ficarra town fathers wait to see whether the Virgin will respond to their lotto hopes, and believers elsewhere pray for a reduction in their credit card debt (I have witnessed this), devastating typhoons pummel East Asia. “How dare … Continue reading
Pascal’s Wager
Piling one irrationality onto another, the town fathers in the Sicilian town of Ficarra have collectively invested in Italy’s $165 million lottery: ”We chose numbers which were connected with the town’s patron saint, the Virgin Mary of the Assumption,” Mayor … Continue reading
The Evolution of God
I have been reading in Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God. Lucidly written and cockily iconoclastic, it contains many mischievous pleasures. Wright rehearses the patent inconsistencies among the four gospels regarding the circumstances of Jesus’ birth (he is obviously not … Continue reading
Take that, Francis Collins!
I was listening with equal parts fascination and incredulity to Christian radio KBRT 740 am this morning while driving back from the pool. The topic on today’s segment of “Defending the Truth”: the self-delusion of “progressive creationists” and “theistic evolutionists”—those … Continue reading
Mark Twain on God’s love
I recently read Mark Twain’s brilliantly acid Letters from the Earth, written in 1909, a year before his death. I highly recommend it. Satan visits the earth and sends back dispatches to his fellow archangels about humans’ conception of God, … Continue reading
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Here be Dragons
Creationist Sam Brownback (for the senator’s own deeply disingenuous explanation of where he stands on evolution check here) is once again taking up the cudgels for junk science, this time with the introduction of a strange unnatural thing known as … Continue reading
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