Campaign over ‘offensive’ town name
From Beachcombing, who notes that “Effin” is named after St. Eimhin, which makes perfect sense if you understand Gaelic spelling rules.
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The Birthday Boy
Am I a fraud?
I never saw the term until this weekend, but I have had the problem all my life.
A cockroach ….
Houris
The meaning of the Iowa Caucus results
From Snapshot of Volatile Political Scene Becomes Real
Students in statistics class place a great deal of emphasis on the mean, and have a very hard time grasping the fact that the confidence interval really conveys much more important information. The media pundits and, yes, the American voter seem to have the same problem.
This $57 Tablet is not the iPad
I want to see this
In classical Greek theater, a tragic trilogy was often followed by a “satyr play” on the same subject for comic relief. Such a play accompanied the Oresteia by Aeschylus, but, alas, it has not survived.
However, when the BBC did a television version of the Oresteia in 1979, called The Serpent Son, they had two modern writers fill this gap. The result was Of Mycenae and Men.
Actually, I would also like to see The Serpent Son. Diana Rigg played Klytemnestra!
From RogueClassicism.
Free speech and Firefly
By way of Ann Althouse.
Who is Santa Claus?
From PhD Comics.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 