I’ve heard that the average number of sexual partners that men have is 8 while the average number of sexual partners that women have is 6. But if you stop and think about these numbers, they don’t make sense.
It’s easier to think of these numbers as frequencies, because humans have a frequentist number sense. Suppose [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Men and women lie on sex surveys
Posted in Culture on 28 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Objectivist and market fundamentalist Greenspan admits to being wrong
Posted in Miscellaneous on 26 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Greenspan said he was ‘partially wrong’ in opposing regulation of derivatives and acknowledged that financial institutions didn’t protect shareholders and investments as well as he expected.”
Read more in this excellent Daily Kos piece.
Communists excuse the failures of communism by claiming that “true” communism has never existed, as if that isn’t strong evidence that their ideal [...]
Another great production by Rx2008
Posted in Miscellaneous on 22 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t seen his other productions, please do. Start here and here and here.
FDR’s fed chairman blamed 1929 collapse on income inequality
Posted in Economics, Politics on 19 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.”
– Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve under Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking in 1951
When we do not learn from history, [...]
Lulz
Posted in Miscellaneous on 6 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Update: confirmed hoax. Still funny, though.
What Joe Biden should say at the VP debate
Posted in Entertainment, Politics on 2 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What Biden Ought To Say by the Rude Pundit. As brilliant as it is obscene.
