got married and regressed back to the mean.  

Do you have another source? I have some questions about the methodology. They only polled registered voters, for one, which is not representative for something like this. Second, they don’t disclose the respondent demographics. They should have polled about 80 Native Hawaiians in an 800 person sample if they were…

I teach World Religions at a couple of colleges and I have used the Mauna Kea debate for the group sessions of my class for a few years now.  While a tangled situation, it is a gift to my class in terms of sparking debate because the students are always torn between their sympathy for science and for native beliefs -…

Have they explored the option of taking one of the aging-out telescopes offline ahead of schedule and rebuilding in it’s place?

They can interact via one of the other four fundamental forces, as while they leave a lot of the nitty gritty particle physics on the table they do speak at the beginning about theories of “macros” (macroscopic dark matter) actually being composites made of elementary SM particles. The masses considered in the paper…

No, stop it. The “thoughts and prayers” meme applies to politicians and people in positions of power to actually do something about a tragedy but only offer thoughts instead. To target regular people merely expressing grief in the only option available to them is an asshole move, asshole.

“he wants to see data that shows they’re aren’t actually some number of unexplained, gunshot-like wounds happening around the world.”

Personally, I suspect Area 9 3/4.

Public distrust in government remains at historic lows.

Spit to storks! Spork to sticks!

I’ve been thinking about why so many people in the media and national politics go out of their way to avoid using the word “racist” when describing Trump.

There are a lot of possible answers, of course, including that some of those that would throw stones inhabiting glass houses—but I’ve settled on something that makes…

At least the papers and networks aren’t quite the gatekeepers they once were.

This might be a bit too esoteric, even for Deadspin, but here goes.

Said it before, will say it again: it’s not politics, it’s morality. If the greatest controversy around Donald Trump were, say, his position on revising the tax code, or even something as volatile as abortion rights, then fine, the PGA could say “whoa, we stay out of politics.” But it’s so much worse than that. It’s…

My favorite memory is right before the kickoff Collinsworth said “I dunno if the Bears want to receive. You want to start a game like this on defense.”

The Bears were quite the team when they relied on Hester and the defense to score 75% of their points.  

Rich Juzwiak not understanding something because it doesn’t fit his extremely privileged worldview is such a common occurrence on this site that we could fill volumes with the text.

Peck’s column popped up in my newsfeed on Saturday and I read it all the way through. Within its text, one thing became clear to me (me: a 57 year old gay man who went through the early 90s in NY and LA - and all that meant, too): Peck is stuck in a time and place and suffering from arrested development. I’d wager…

I am so tired of this “it took him 33 years to come out.” Are gays supposed to come out the moment they are born? Jesus Christ this is so fucking stupid.