Author Archives: Agricola

Ain’t Happening For The Aint’s

 

Media bias is everywhere you turn. Even in football. Why, you can’t even pick up the paper or turn on the television without hearing or reading the latest sob story about the miraculous return of New Orleans, and by association, their formerly woeful football team. What a load of balderdash.
This blogger remembers when the Colts [...] Read more »

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Random Thoughts While Waiting for the Muse

 

I know the answer to the question, but I don’t like it…so I ask it again, in the hope that someone will offer a different answer. That is, why is the Super Bowl played on Sunday night?
Let me list just a few of the almost infinite inconveniences that the schedule imposes on the game’s loyal [...] Read more »

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Reporting From Iowa

 

This could be me, but it’s not. It is an intrepid Iowa blogger taking advantage of free wifi, at whatever cost. Picture courtesy of The Hawkeye.
Unlike last year, Christmas Day finds the ground clear of snow after two days of drenching rain, 20 mph winds, and temperatures in the high thirties. In other words, the [...] Read more »

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On Bonuses and Deductibles

 

Nobody has asked me what suggestions I might have for two of the most vexing problems of the time, but in a moment of clarity at 3:00 AM this morning I received these messages and am now compelled to report them to you, dear reader.
Bonuses
Obama may regard them as "fat cat bankers", but you won’t [...] Read more »

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ClimateGate

 
Aside from the larger issue of the complete disregard for the scientific method displayed by the players in this circus, has anyone read any of the posts that dissect the code of the various programs?
Sweet Jesus! It’s enough to make any of my computer science professors choke.
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