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Rebuttal
Religion doesn't prevent tragedies from occurring. For the record, Tony Lanza lived with his religious family who presumably went to church every Sunday, even after Tony graduated from a religious middle school. Tony's religious parents divorced in 2009.
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What is Toronto?
Let me precede this post by expressing that I am speaking from human experience and not from formal expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) which I lack.
IBM and author Stephen Baker make the claim that Jeopardy! is full of wordplay and that there is little correlation between the category name and each clue's question. I assert that more ( Read more... ) -
Color-coding
One co-worker cajoled, "[Compared to women,] All men have some degree of color-blindness." In seriousness, the following articles looked interesting (click for stories):
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Religion and politics do mix!
So why not cut out the middleman? Prop 8 Trial Today Called 'Explosive' as Efforts by Mormon Church to Hide Involvement are Revealed -
Ron Paul-itics
I'll condense all of my Ron Paul clips into a single post, from most recent to least recent:
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Senate Amendment 2566
During the Great Bailout, Congress amended the federal tax code and the President personally appointed a Bonus Czar to oversee CEO bonuses. More recently, Senator Al Franken introduced Senate Amendment 2566, which made me reflect on how our federal government was designed to work and how it is working right now ( Read more... ) -
Latin word of the day
- Noster, nostra, nostrum (adj.): our
- Pater, patris (n.): father
