I hope he says it soon.
Frank Balsinger
Lifelong student with interests a mile wide and an inch deep. Autodidact. Pedant, hopefully of the slightly more pleasant sort. Sharer of things learned along the way. Lately of a creative bent.
You’re five times more likely to get murdered by an American than an illegal immigrant
We need a wall because I’m afeared and cain’t do numbers. Sometimes all ya need to counter silly to outright dangerous fear mongering is whip out a little basic arithmetic and some […]
Rohg Skoler summons the demon Trumplestiltskin
First, I saw this article. Just the kind of thing to get a bleedin’ heart like me right in the feels. Trump’s Treasury pick Steve Mnuchin oversaw 50,000 foreclosures against the vulnerable […]
Fake news. Who should be the judge?
ZOMG!!1! I saw this meme, or was it a tweet? Or a meme of a tweet? on the internet today, and it looked really urgent and seemed legit and everything, because it […]
Fear and loathing in Ben Carson’s brain
I am Ben Carson’s guilty conscience. With the way things have progressed recently, I have been feeling ever so worse than usual, and it was already pretty rough being me. People don’t […]
Today in faux journalism: don’t look now, but did Fox just punk Breitbart?
The New York Times, Breitbart, FOX News and more: clown cars on parade. Update 11/13/2016 11:26 AM MST: the letter has been found. Ms. Ember tweeted this morning, at 6:57 AM (probably […]
Action plan #1: buy a damned newspaper
Unless you’ve missed every headline and item in your social media feed, you might have noticed that there’s a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth today. That’s okay. Get it out […]
What if cops were Skittles?
According to Vox, police have killed over 2,000 people since Ferguson. Their map of fatal encounters illustrates the point with red dots. That made me wonder. What if cops were Skittles?
Never forget…what, exactly?
Yesterday, Big Think posted an interesting collection of Gallup Poll results, along with some commentary: Obama Actually Made America Great Again. Here’s the Data. To hear the rabidly irrational Obama opposition on today, […]
Good science. Bad blogging.
Bad science journalism is almost as bad as bad science, perhaps worse in some ways, insofar as it may popularize error where there had been none before. Carping about bad science blogging, […]
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