“Thus the real danger in the artificial crisis over the president’s birth certificate is not Donald Trump becoming president, but a news media unwilling to apply a basic filter for what it publishes, posts and broadcasts. Failing to do so degrades the quality of news in general, making people less trusting and increasingly disinterested.”
—Tavis Smiley
May 2011
April 2011
I had a dream about a week ago about a goalie getting a break away and scoring the final goal for his hat trick. What has Canada done to me?
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“President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican from the early 1990s. And the Republican Party he’s facing has abandoned many of its best ideas in its effort to oppose him.”
—Ezra Klein
“statistics are often used like a drunken man uses a lamp-post — for support rather than illumination.”
—Never heard this ‘old saying’ before, but I love it.
Why I do not believe, pt 3
Most atheist, I don’t think, have to go through the steps that I did.
A Grammar related question.
Could someone explain something to me? When I started to become a fan of science I started using the phrase “data is king” to refer to scientific evidence (not to the spock-wannabe of “The Next Generation”). Anyway, as I was talking research methods class, learning how to write scientific papers, we were told that ‘data’ is a plural word. So that meant what I was saying was wrong, and the correct way to say it is “data are king”. Since I am more interested in how words or a phrase sound or feel I didn’t like “data are king”. It’s too clunky and doesn’t have the same command to it as “Data is king”. I posted this some time ago on facebook and a friend of greater grammatical and scientific understanding explained that, in a certain way, “Data is king” can still be correct. I can not find it on my profile and I cannot remember what it was he said. Was he right? If so, why was he right (or wrong)?
In the process of building two new close up pads! I bought all the stuff to make one, and ended up having enough to make a large one and a small one. It will be an exciting few days of assembling until my brand new rare cards arrive!
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