Featherly’s Kevblog

As mentioned earler baseball-stat nerd Nate Silver, who has become the nation’s most accurate election prognosticator. Two weeks ago he blogged an intriguing numerical breakdown of Al Franken’s odds of beating Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s ongoing U.S. Senate recount.
That column waffled a bit, but built a compelling case that Frank had nearly even odds of [...]

Mitch Mitchell, the fabulous drummer with the Jimi Hendrix experience, has reportedly died at age 61.
Not much to say, beyond “bummer,” about the death of the only musician to remain at Hendrix’s side throughout the duration of the superstar guitarist’s career. But it strikes me that his passing marks the first time that a major [...]

Nate Silver, the baseball-stat nerd who has become the nation’s most accurate election prognosticator, has an intriguing numerical breakdown of Al Franken’s odds of overcoming his tiny deficit in the disputed U.S. Senate race against Norm Coleman.
You need to read pretty deep into the column to get what Silver is driving at, and you’re going [...]

Now, two days after the fact of this mind-blowing election, I can’t shake the feeling that somehow I’ve been startled awake, and that somehow I’m back in a familiar reality, awakened from a bad eight-year dream–and living once again in the United States.

Sez the Great LaFontaine…
“There’s some great stuff coming out from conservative thinkers basically saying that this last year, the Republican Party declared itself hostile to anyone with more brain activity than [Terry] Schiavo.”

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