Dubner does it right. So does The Economist.
I do take issue with the comment that Dubner had “encountered Muphry’s law”. This was not Muphry, this was a miscorrection, plain and simple.
All that’s left for me to rail against are the commenters; Sturgeon’s Law personified.
There are a couple of people I’ve got to know over the years for whom I have always reserved a special fantasy. We’d be somewhere comfortable and trust-inspiring, maybe having shared chemicals that further heighten a sense of camaraderie and truth-telling. I’d have given certain confidences. They’d have given certain confidences. And then I’d pop the question.
“Did you really believe all that guff, or was it just something that you took up because you could see the potential?”
Belatedly getting round to posting some pictures from Ninfa earlier this spring. There’s not a lot one can say about the gardens without seeming like a total milquetoast. They’re romantic, they’re overgrown, they’re bursting with plants and full of ruins, they’re suggestive, they’re breath-taking....
Stop Loss is a film about the war in Iraq and what it does to the young men who serve. War is hell. So is this film. How it gets the ratings it does is beyond me. IMDB says “Mark Richard estimated that there were no less than 65 drafts of the script.” Sixty five, no less? Fewer might have been bett...
I don't believe this. Stephen J. Dubner, the journalist half of Freakonomics, has totally blown it. In the Freakonomics blog for the New York Times he writes:
The Economist is, almost inarguably, a great magazine.
That doesn’t mean it doesn't make the occasional mistake. Consider this lead f...
