Yeah, if you're going to point to a website, actually point to a real one. Sheesh.

I'm angered over a lack of literature for the one true deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. http://www.venganza.org/

@Trip_McNeely: As Joe pointed out above, most news orgs have a policy against reporting suicides unless they happen in a very public place or involve someone of prominence. This is a great outcome. Excellent work by Ofc Cochran.

Hell, if they want piracy, they should raid the entire country of China.

These data confirm earlier data-based estimates, but take care as the ACS is based on self reports of having voted, notorously inflated because people tend to say they voted when they didn't. Still, this fits the data profile emerging from 2012 and if you read the actual report you can tease out some interesting opportunities and challenges for both parties in 2016.

Unemployment among college grads is 3.5 percent (or so, last I looked). That said, many are underemployed.

He spread himself too thin, got sloppy. He's good at his game, arguably the best at media criticism, but try to do too much and you make mistakes. In this case, an embarrassing one.

It was a stupid thing to say, he apologized. Did it really require any more commentary? I read one of his books (yes, he's a conservative, look it up before you blather) and it was for me tough going because it's not my area, and he had a controversial column a few months back that generated some fascinating discussion among economists.

There is a similar but more elaborate piece on this topic in this month's The Atlantic. I highly recommend it. Plus it has stuff about burning ice.

I've never given the name much thought, but "redskins" is kinda bad. I'm a bit baffled by one small methodological issue in the poll. It says 1,004 adults were surveyed with a margin of error of 3.9 percent. By my math, the margin of error based on that many respondents is 3.09 percent. Either the story is wrong on a really small matter, or there's more to the poll sample I don't see. Yeah, stuff like this bothers me.

TMZ no doubt contributed to someone's kid's college fund to get an early copy of the video. I watched it, lost several IQ points I can't afford to lose in the process. Cops hear this kind of blather all the time, even from people who really aren't famous (or connected) but think they are.

On the surface, you'd think Broun gets further marginalized as well known Republicans jump into the race, but his core constituency of the scientifically-challenged may keep things interesting. I could see him in a runoff. We'll know more when a few real polls come out, not the robo-stuff we've seen so far.

Heh, now mine makes no sense. Not that my comments ever make a lot of sense.

@Used2baFreeCountry: Woodstock is 10.2 percent black. I get the racist meaning of the cross burning, of course, but I don't get the significance of the deer meat. Is that a "this could be you" thing, as in dead meat?

I asked a high-ranking scientific expert recently, one who often testifies before Congress (not a UGA person, btw), whether these politicians actually believe the nonsense they spout or whether it's merely playing to a scientifically-challenged base. The answer was depressing. They really believe this crap.

Glad to see the Stones continue this tradition of popping up in small venues where, usually, they play a lot of blues and such.

I watched a chunk of it on TV last night. What an odd game, especially given the UGA season so far. I hope this signals a turnaround, a waking up, or some other good sports cliche.

Excellent.

Given Broun serves (ironically) on the House science committee, I wonder how he'd do on the Pew science quiz.

http://bit.ly/109HfXg

And yes, I got 13 of 13 right -- though a couple were sheer dumb luck or the product of watching too many Big Bang Theory reruns.

As much as many of us would prefer the "enemy combatant" approach, he remains a U.S. citizen arrested on U.S. soil with no obvious link to Al Quada. Federal charges are the only real way to legally deal with him and not risk his squirming his way out on constitutional grounds.

I'd forgotten about the Creed, written around 1906 if that source of all information, wikipedia, is to be believed. Re-reading it is interesting, though a more up-to-date version is the Principles of Journalism:

http://bit.ly/ZElanU

Opinion is certainly a subset of journalism, one that includes columnists, pundits and political cartoonists. As to the rest of the letter, it kinda lost me.

@Man_Of_The_Mountain: I'm unhappy with this season too but there's no such site as fireperno.com. The domain name is, however, available if you're willing to put your money where your URL is.

This is so very cool.

@melmarino: I don't think the Aryans was a press theory. If I'm not mistaken, reporters were passing on law enforcement speculation. Perry's theory, that was all his own.

After the last three mediocrities it can only get better. Right?

On a (hopefully) positive SF note, this November the film version of Ender's Game comes out. As a guy who read the original short story and later the novel (the only story in history to win a Hugo as both), I hope they don't screw that one up.