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After last nights very close race in NH, some pundits are claiming that the Bradley Effect (BE) was, so to speak, in the hiz-ouse.
The BE expounds that white voters will tell pollsters they are voting for a non-white candidate, so as to avoid the appearance of being racist. But once they are in the booth, [...]

Oh dear…someone has exposed our secrets. Some of the more astute observations.
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his [...]

I’ve just started reading the new book by Al Gore, called “The Assault on Reason”. It’s premise is basically that the way we, as humans, communicate and exchange ideas has ben so badly warped by ‘one sided’ media such as television, that as a culture we are failing ourselves.
Yes, there are some politics in the [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/19/canada.couch.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Read the whole article…the italic part is where I lost faith in humanity. It’s quoted below in case you don’t want to go to CNN.

Seriously…what?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/03/cnn.shooting/index.html
Click for context…
:)

As you know, the word ‘reticent‘ is defined by Websters as ‘reluctant’, i.e., unwilling or hesitant.
My new word, diareticent is a reluctance to eat anything that will cause gastric distress. For instance, ‘After eating someones forgotten Hot Pocket at work, I will be quite diareticent to steal unmarked lunches from the freezer at work’.
Feel free [...]