99% Malarky

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  March 5th at 01:00 PM  | 

Hate is so much easier than truth, reason or imagination. It motivates people, gets them doing irrational things with no particular concern for the consequences that lie in waiting. To give you an idea of just how motivated people get via hatred, here is a recent story from Kansas City, MO. A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire | Read More »

538 Election Model Predicts Brown Win

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  January 18th at 08:17 PM  | 

The election is tomorrow today, and we should not (see comments below) in the words of earlgrey, “get ahead of ourselves.” Everyone in Massachusetts — GO VOTE! Having said that, this may be of interest: Via Drudge, from RealClearPolitics: Polls are overwhelmingly predicting a Brown win. The FiveThirtyEight model of predicting Senate races: “which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, | Read More »