Remember my post about a humorous suggestion to see if it was merely the fact that it was sponsored by atheists that made some people find atheist billboard ads offensive, rather that whatever content it contained?
Well, someone took up the idea and we now have some evidence that it is merely the word ‘atheist’ that is the problem.
Stephen Walt is puzzled:
One of the great puzzles of contemporary national security policy is why the mighty United States gets its knickers in a twist over lots of security issues in lots of unimportant places. After all, it’s the world’s most advanced [Read more…]
When we think of social science studies that use surveys to look at features of the general population, we tend to assume that they go out and find a randomized sample of people, either by mail or phone or in person, and that each such study finds its own sample, so that any person [Read more…]
The character of Abraham in the Bible is clearly a dangerous psychopath and why three major religions would proudly claim him as their common patriarch is a real mystery. Surely they would want to disown a man who was so insane that he was willing to kill his own child because [Read more…]
Apparently smaller bonuses this year are causing all kinds of angst for the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street.
Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said [Read more…]
Scholarly articles tend to follow pretty much a four-step formula.
In order to make the case that their research is important, [Read more…]
2012 being a leap year, today is the extra day. Some of us are aware of the rule that says that we add a leap day for years that are divisible by 4 but not if it is divisible by 100 unless that year is also divisible by 400.
The reason for these complicated leap day rules is [Read more…]
He died today.
Here is the group singing one of my favorite songs I’m a Believer. He’s the one with the tambourine.
Incidentally Neil Diamond wrote this song, which had a resurgence when Smash Mouth did a cover (also very good) that was played in the hit film Shrek.
To no one’s surprise, women greatly helped provide Romney with the victory in Michigan. While Romney had only a 1% edge among men in that state, he won the women’s vote by 6%. And this is just among Republican women. [Read more…]