Mrs. T. and I have been chatting off and on about what happens when people are devalued and are treated as a means to an end. Bad stuff happens. Then, this morning, I listened to a riveting podcast about a hostage situation about which I’ve never heard before. It’s from This American Life. Here is
The Election in Two Charts
I last night saw two interesting charts at FiveThirtyEight.com. The first shows how the electoral vote totals would look if only women voted. The second shows the outcome if only men voted. Wow. Full article here.
Contrarianism
In New England, Monday was a holiday. For the long weekend, I went to Barkhamsted, CT, to fish. I rented a small room on a river. Fished about eight to 10 hours a day. Water was very low, which made for very challenging conditions. The fish spooked easily, and so, you had to slowly creep
The VP Debate
Here’s a very funny, and insightful, review of last night’s VP Debate. From The Daily Show and Trevor Noah: Trevor reacts to the vice-presidential debate. #VPDebate pic.twitter.com/QmOpNDGmGN — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 5, 2016
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“Judaism is about endurance.” That’s a quote from a New York Times article on Jews in Kaifeng, China. 1,000 people claim Jewish ancestry, and the government has been cracking down on overt displays of Judaism. This past summer, on our bike trip in Spain, I chatted often with an entrepreneur from Colorado also on the trip with
First Debate
I didn’t watch last night’s first Presidential debate. Instead, I this morning read some online summaries and watched the video highlights. And, I listened to the FiveThirtyEight.com podcast and read a really good article on post-debate “insta-polls” and how they correlate with more robust polling a few days later (article here). You may remember Nate Silver, who