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Daily Archives: November 11th, 2008

A prediction: You won’t soon be seeing the 7 Aphorisms in a Park near you.

From the New York Times: PLEASANT GROVE CITY, Utah — Across the street from City Hall here sits a small park with about a dozen donated buildings and objects — a wishing well, a millstone from the city’s first flour mill and an imposing red granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Thirty miles to […]

Liars, damned liars and statistics

Nate Silver over at fivethirtyeight.com gives some context to the oft repeated claim that the surge in minority voters is responsible for the passage of proposition 8 in California: Certainly, the No on 8 folks might have done a better job of outreach to California’s black and Latino communities. But the notion that Prop 8 […]

Brave New Films: Lieberman Must Go II

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