Media Heat or Light?
I’ve long thought that the major problem of the media was not so much bias (though bias is evidence) but shallowness. Today Allan Bevere said it much better.
Similar Posts
Some More Well-Considered(?) Legislation
ByhenryIn pursuing the laudable goal of keeping lead out of children’s it looks like congress may have been just as thoughtful as usual. More on evangelical outpost.
Sumerians Witness Creation
ByhenryThis is too funny (from The Onion). HT: Exploring Our Matrix.
A Repentance Speech Event
ByhenryA friend sent me a link to this post on Language Log which discusses public repentance as a speech event. If you tag some spiritual implications onto the linguistic analysis, it adds some interest as well!
Yoko Ono Files Suit Against Expelled!
ByhenryMore information at Freespace.
Emotions, Momentum Shifts, and Margins of Error
ByhenryThis CQPolitics article is a good read on New Hampshire, I think. Along with emotions, one needs to remember that polls come with margins of error [Wikipedia], and that even those are within a certain confidence percentage.