The once and future first daughter’s bout of reefer madness notwithstanding, please remember: “anecdotal evidence” is another way of saying “no evidence”… Chelsea Clinton, who has been out on the stump a […]
Chelsea Clinton and “anecdotal evidence”
Monorail to the Future: reasserting the American Dream for #HopeTuesday
With the 1962 World’s Fair, Seattle asserted itself as the city that invented the future. Seattle Center, home to the Space Needle, Key Arena, the Pacific Science Center and other Jetsonesque architectural wonders, gave us a […]
Book Review: Lament for the Fallen by Gavin Chait
“Review a little history and you’ll see that creators seem to find inspiration in adversity.” – Gavin Chait, Lament for the Fallen On the surface Gavin Chait’s debut novel Lament for the […]
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, […]
Peter Thiel and Ambrosia: A modern-day Dracula reboot for self-absorbed rich people
Transfusing youth, 21st century style… (At the sound of wolves howling) – “Children of the night: what music they make!” – Dracula (in Tod Browning’s Dracula, 1931) Several recent news items from reliable sources […]
Writers of slender acquaintance: Karel Capek
“Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish […]
Rivers run through it…North Carolina’s Rivers: Facts, Legends and Lore…
John Hairr’s North Carolina Rivers is part reference book, part history, part guidebook. What it is not is particularly engaging…. While I haven’t completed my book list for 2016, I will say a couple […]
Martin Shkreli edges Donald Trump for S&R’s Asshole of the Year Award
Noted sociopath and PharmaDoucheBro Shkreli spent 2015 redefining what it means to be an asshole, upsets GOP presidential frontrunner Trump. You’ve all known an asshole — a rude, arrogant, contemptuous person. Assholes […]
Top conservative media sites regularly misrepresent OISM’s Global Warming Petition Project
S&R investigated the top 15 conservative and/or libertarian media sites for mentions of the Global Warming Petition Project. We found over 80 since May 2008, but only five were on Fox News.
For 2016, re-elect Andrew Shepherd: Fiction trumps the Republican reality
In my favorite bad movie, The American President, Michael Douglas as the fictional President Andrew Shepherd confronts his Republican challenger’s claims about Shepherd’s character. We have serious problems to solve, and we […]
