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Tag Archives: Politics
From the annals of recent brilliance
I had a conversation with the Danimal the other day that reminded me of a few rather outrageous claims I’d run into of late. It got me thinking about why these claims persist despite their obvious factual shortcomings. After all, … Continue reading
The Republican Primaries
Yeah I know: I’ve said before how much I abhor politics, or more accurately, abhor discussing politics, because 99.9% of the time it accomplishes nothing whatsoever. I don’t expect this to accomplish anything, either: my hope is that my frank assessment … Continue reading
Posted in lolcat, Politics, Real Life
Tagged gingrich, indecision 2012, never posting about politics again....again, obama, paul, Politics, politics ugh, romney, santorum, ugh ugh ugh
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Frightened
Where is this country going with its dialogue? Seriously. Civil debate – the cornerstone of this country’s progress – has all but vanished. The only remaining vestiges have become scapegoats for everything wrong with this country: “intellectual elitists,” they say. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Politics, Real Life
Tagged conservatives, debates, democrats, dumbass rednecks, facebook, how can selfish inconsiderate and unkind people call themselves followers of jesus, i really don't understand why the use of reason is suddenly taboo, intellectual elites, liberals, Politics, republicans, stupidity and intolerance abound, when did being intelligent become a mortal sin, why the hell are people like glenn beck and rush limbaugh followed
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“We need to have empathy”
It may not be well-advertised, but if asked directly I make no secret of the fact that one of the most interesting things in the world to me is humanity. We fall everywhere on every single spectrum, both disgustingly predictable … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Articles, Graduate School, Real Life
Tagged carnegie mellon, debate, fraternity, gaussian distribution, georgia tech, gray areas define us, gridlock, intellectual, logic, machine learning, passion, phd, Politics, president, psychology today, statistics, university of virginia
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The same mountain
Man, this health care debate just doesn’t end, does it? As the weeks and months have dragged on, and every news network in existence struggles to redeploy the “Make-it-or-break-it Month” headline, I’m discovering that my perspective on the whole debacle … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged americans and our consumerist attitudes, debate, galileo was one smart dude, health care, health care debate, if beck hates govt so much why does he read books from public libraries, lolcats make everything better, nobody dies from lack of health insurance, politicized connotations will be the death of rational discourse, Politics, socialism, there is no war against lack of health insurance, there is no war against terror, we need politicians who arent politicians, why wont glenn beck just go away
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The “dichotomy” of good and evil
This is something of a world-view I’ve been cooking up for the better part of the last 24 years, but only just discovered last semester – in the throes of Hoeffding-instigated agony and insomnia-induced delium – how to adequately and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Politics, Real Life, the dark side
Tagged (p * good) + (q * evil) = you, central limit theorem, conservatives, dichotomy, gauss was a badass, gaussian distribution, if life was simple everyone would do it, jedi, liberals, life is normally distributed, normal distribution, obama, one of the few absolutes is that there are few absolutes, polar bears, polarization, Politics, religion, star wars, yoda was a match for darth sidious because yoda is ms piggy
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Theatre of Consciousness 