One of the good papers

Since we moved to far western North Carolina, where we can get the daily paper from Asheville delivered by mail only, we began buying the Su...

Life's detours

Sorry for lack of posting. Went in for an outpatient procedure last week and ended up spending 5 nights in hospital. A new experience for me...

How good is your political information?

I love this column in HuffPost by Peggy Drexler: The High Cost of Low Information . With so much information out there, sometimes it's e...

Random links on journalism, research, and news

New video game lets players kill Woodward and Bernstein . Is this part of the anti-media conspiracy, or what? In New Yorker. Top 25 Web 2.0 ...

The new Red Menace

When things aren't going well, Americans need to find a bogeyman to blame it on. The 'communists' were an easy target in the 195...

Catching up

I've been out of town and hoped to update the blog during my trip but didn't see anything to blog anyway. I've been avoiding po...

Some useful stats sites

For lovers (and seekers) of statistics, Shirl Kennedy has put together a nice list at Resourceshelf of Niche Statistics . Among the unusual ...