In Indianapolis, 11 people showed up to welcome their professional football team after losing the Superbowl. In Baltimore, the band played on.
The difference between Indianapolis and Baltimore
February 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Tagged: Baltimore, Colts, Indianapolis
One really good thing about all this snow
February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Congress can’t get in to work.
Bring on another 20 inches.
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Tagged: congress, DC, Snow
A Warning to Republicans
February 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Sarah Palin says she’s “willing” to take on President Obama in 2012.
If she wins your primary elections, you all better be willing to have another 4 years of President Obama. He’s might be a lot like Carter, but she’s not anything like Reagan.
Oh, and to folks calling themselves members of the “Tea Party” movement: chanting “Run Sarah, Run” doesn’t give you much credibility. That she endorsed Rand Paul is nice, but doesn’t absolve her.
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Tagged: Free Advice, Palin, Republicans
Blizzard of 2010
February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A couple of pics from what appears to be the biggest snowstorm to ever hit Baltimore.
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Tagged: Baltimore, Blizzard of 2010, Snow, Snowpocalypse
Snow day pic
February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The snow is a little more than one dog deep.
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Solutions
February 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Doesn’t this look better than 2000 pages of federal bureaucracy? Maybe not perfect, but at least better?
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Tagged: healthcare
Cognitive dissonance
February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Senator Ben Cardin’s comments on the 2011 federal budget presented by the White House.
As a member of the Senate Budget Committee, I look forward to exploring the details of this budget with Administration officials to ensure that it supports broad initiatives that will spur job growth and uphold the priorities important to Marylanders without adding to our long-term debt.
Huh?
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Tagged: Ben Cardin, congress, WTF
Career Hindsight
February 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Way back when I got out of college, I had a job as a CSR for an insurance company. A year or two into that, I seriously considered changing my career path and going into law enforcement. I wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with the corporate grind. I ended up sticking with it, and I thought I was doing OK.
Looking back now, it appears I did make a mistake. I can’t come up with how I could work out a two year paid suspension. While pulling down more than six figures, mind you.
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Tagged: Career, Police Abuse, work
The government promotes the use of HFCS
February 3, 2010 · 6 Comments
For those of you upset about the use of HFCS in foods, here’s part of the reason it’s used so much.
(HFCS isn’t a health issue, and doesn’t make people fat. Table sugar is 50% sucrose and 50% fructose. HFCS is 45% sucrose and 55% fructose. If that little bit of fructose is an issue, I suggest you take aim at apples.)
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Tagged: HFCS, Protectionism, Sugar
Statistical anomaly or magic cat sense?
February 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I find it interesting that when presented with an unusual event, like a cat that appears able to predict imminent death at a nursing home, the first assumption is the cat has some sort of magical powers, not that it’s a statistical anomaly.
Maybe the cat is magic. But I don’t think I’d assume that until I got a chance to crunch some numbers to verify the probability of a cat randomly selecting people about to die in a nursing home.
Jumping to this conclusion tells us a lot about ourselves, and our lack of critical thinking skills. Develop and use those skills instead of assuming you’ve found a magic cat.
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Tagged: Cat, Magic, statistics
