Mike Huckabee is a nutThe story referenced describes how he has affirmed, in public, the belief that women are to be submissive to men. And this is the same guy who once said gay people should be put in concentration camps (or so I'm told--his actual statement was for quarantine, but that's still pretty bad). How this medieval cretin is even ( Read more... )

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I am visiting Kansas right now, and I am actually in good health this year. If anyone is having a new year's party, I'd love to come by.

Other news:

Apparently, I type better than I thought:
91 words
Touch Typing online
Holidays have been fun enough. I got myself some math books to help me grow as a person, but if Santa wants to make my holiday ( Read more... )

This year's ballot is out, so it's time to fill out a poll telling us all for whom you would vote if you had a vote ( Read more... )

Spoilers, so you've been warned.

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Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera are going to Detoit ( Read more... )

Looks like I could be headed to a worm lab next. I've worked with fruit flies, bacteria, and giant smelly fish, so this'll be a nice next step (assuming I get it). I still haven't worked with a mammal before, worms are cool, and the webpage of the lab's PI has all sorts of awesome computational stuff on it. I have a feeling I'll be asked to work ( Read more... )

Sigh. Do we have to continue to hear about how, based on the fact that it is possible for a high-payroll team to lose a playoff series against a low-payroll team, then payroll is supposedly more or less a nonfactor in Major League Baseball? This is absurd. This is the DEFINITION of a small sample size. Bill James liked to ponit out that over a ( Read more... )

106 most unread books. Bold the ones you read, italicize the ones you couldn't finish, and strike the ones you couldn't stand.

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Life update: I'm in school again. I still love analysis, and I care a bit less about linear algebra.

Not much else to say.