Tag Archives: Politics

The Daily Mail, journalism at its slightest

December 8, 2009 – 10:31 am

For those of you lucky enough to have lived thus far without bumping into it, the UK has a ‘news’paper called The Daily Mail. I say ‘news’ rather than news because it has several facets, none of which are particularly concerned with news. Online it’s primarily interested in which reality TV tramp has [...]

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S&P

March 17, 2009 – 6:04 pm

An interesting bit of trivia, I think: If you play with the graph here you can show that since Obama came to power the S&P 500 (which I chose because it’s a better indicator than the Dow of the overall market, though still far from perfect) has fallen around 10%. That’s pretty shocking. [...]

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On Chimps

February 21, 2009 – 9:23 pm

Here’s an interesting article on the perception of African American as apes even today:
The researchers consistently discovered a black-ape association even if the young adults said they knew nothing about its historical connotations. The connection was made only with African American faces; the paper’s third study failed to find an ape association with other non-white [...]

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Ballot Writing

December 19, 2008 – 11:10 am

There’s a recount going on in the Minnesota Senatorial race between Norman Coleman (R) and Alan Franken (D). The vote highlights the inadequacy of much of the US voting system – the variability of the voting methods used means that if this was a science experiment they’d have to give a margin of error. [...]

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Man of Honour

December 2, 2008 – 10:14 pm

From the BBC:
A reservist, Darrel Vandeveld was called up as a military lawyer after 9/11 and served in Iraq, Bosnia and Africa.
In 2007, he became a prosecutor for the military commissions which tried terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, a role he took enthusiastically.
“I went down there on a mission and my mission was to [...]

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