basing decisions on bad information… the american way?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080318/sc_livescience/immigrationreducescrimerates;_ylt=AgW5wRp7vxu45ypgVEASATsPLBIF
Two articles I read this week revealed something to me about me that I was a little uncomfortable with… I’m pretty naive. Not in the innocent way of a child. I’m naive in the more dangerous way, I’m ignorant.
First there was an article in a scientific journal on the Mpemba effect. If you are not [...]

March Madness has got me going loco

Here are my tournament picks;
Sweet 16; UCLA, UNC, Wash. St., Louisville, Tennessee, Kansas, Clemson, Wisconsin, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Texas, Connecticut, Xavier, Arizona and Memphis.
Elite Eight: UNC, Louisville, Kansas, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Stanford, UCLA and Arizona
Final Four: UNC, Georgetown, UCLA and Stanford
Championship Game: UCLA, UNC
Champions: UCLA

NBA MVP. Kobe over Lebron

Sometime last week my brother took the time to call me up. He was in a panic. He had this to say; ESPN is starting to hype up Lebron James over Kobe for M.V.P. I assured him that it wasn’t going to happen. I told him that ESPN was only hyping LBJ because he had [...]

Today

I have a confession to make. Today, I don’t feel powerful. Actually it had been going on for a few weeks now but I don’t feel strong. Today, I feel quite normal. Like I can’t make a difference. I feel like there are only a few of us and we are like water drops in [...]