Author Archives: Rich Horton

Warning: Being A Bigot Makes You Not So Good At Statistics

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Rich Horton

This is sadly typical of lots of bigots these days: Is this a surprise to anybody? The following was posted on rhrealitycheck.org Thursday: U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of … Continue reading →

Posted in Appalling, Religion | 9 Comments

Nonsense On Stilts

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Rich Horton

Generally speaking, I enjoy the columns of Bill McClellan in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. McClellan is really something of a throwback to the days when newspapers had a much more blue collar air to them, back when reporters and editors … Continue reading →

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Another Triumph For The NHS

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Rich Horton

I, for one, cannot wait until we start running out of medicine like they are in merry ol’ England: Chemist warning on drug shortages Pharmacists are warning that patients are suffering because of a shortage of some medicines. An attractive … Continue reading →

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Letters Written

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Rich Horton

Unlike a lot of people interested in politics, I have never been an avid writer to my representatives. In my mind I always have a vision of the old guy who writes every public official he can think of so … Continue reading →

Posted in Advice, Politics | 2 Comments

Climate Science: Where Science Comes Second, If At All

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Rich Horton

It never ends.  From the BBC: ‘Time to ditch climate policies’ An international group of academics is urging world leaders to abandon their current policies on climate change. The authors of How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course say … Continue reading →

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Working With “Agent 123″

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Rich Horton

It is a funny thing, but sometimes you read the news without actually getting the most important parts of it. This happened to me the other day when Gaius quoted from the story about the husband and wife spying for … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Personal Thoughts | 6 Comments

The Fraud Continues, Only More Stupidly

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Rich Horton

The loose patchwork of carefully selected data, non-testable hypotheses, and non-verifiable computer models known as “Anthropogenic Global Warming” has been coming apart at the seems for awhile now. The ever increasing (near hysterical) attempts to stitch it back together are … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Junk Science | 4 Comments

Europeans And Canadians Express “Thoughtless Nonsense”

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Rich Horton

Maybe they don’t get the USA Today in Ottawa or Brussels? EU attacks ‘Buy American’ clause The EU has increased its pressure on the US to reconsider the “Buy American” clause in the $800bn (£567bn) economic recovery package now before … Continue reading →

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Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.): “I Have No Idea What I’m Talking About”

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Rich Horton

Well, it might as well have said it. If the goal is to create jobs, it only makes sense to buy American. Here’s a thought. If we want to stimulate the American economy and create new jobs here, we ought … Continue reading →

Posted in Bad Ideas | 7 Comments

Yet Again More Further Additional Proof Of Global “Warming”

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Rich Horton

From Watts Up With That? Mature Arctic Ivory Gull Seen in Massachusetts – first time in over a century One of the claims about “global climate change” is that it will affect the normal ranges of flora and fauna of … Continue reading →

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Do You Have Your Hobo Outfit Picked Out Yet?

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Rich Horton

Over at my home blog the other day I made a comment about the “economic stimulus” package to the effect that it will be remembered as the 21st Century version of the Smoot-Hawley tariff. I meant it figuratively. Unfortunately, there … Continue reading →

Posted in Bad Ideas, Democrats, Economy | 4 Comments

More Proof Of Global “Warming”?

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Rich Horton

Isn’t this exactly what Algore would predict? Snowy owls swoop southward Biologists say an increase in snowy owl sightings in the South suggests that the arctic species did so well in its northern breeding grounds last year that competition is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Junk Science | 5 Comments

Do The Right Thing

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Rich Horton

Some folks simply do not get it, particularly if those folks are academics: Why GOP can’t say ‘whatever it is, we’re against it’ One of the best Marx Brothers movies, “Horse Feathers,” played in movie theaters at the height of … Continue reading →

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Odd Odds & Ends

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Rich Horton

Just a couple links. See what made the Right Wing Prof exclaim: “…free-range chickens are penis-waving, serial-raping, patriarchal psychopaths!” And from the “insert your own joke here” file: Nasty odor plagues St. Louis area The money quote: “”I don’t want … Continue reading →

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Idiot Alert

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Rich Horton

(Note: Apologies to one and all…but sometimes I read something so stupid I cannot help myself.) Jeezus H. Christ. What exactly does it take to write for Slate? Charles Pierce (who is NOT, I repeat NOT to be confused with … Continue reading →

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