3E

hey buddy

2012-01-30T08:57:00.002-06:00

Woof Blitzer

2012-01-28T08:45:00.002-06:00

Wouldn't a professional reporter/interview guy, just by standing around, pick up enough to at least look competent at Jeopardy!?

Metal Monday

2012-01-27T10:48:00.001-06:00

In other news, the scariest bridge in the world kinda collapsed.

back in town

2012-01-25T11:42:00.002-06:00

did you even notice I was gone, internet?

Furious fat fabulous fantastic

2012-01-21T03:45:00.000-06:00

I bet I've posted this before, but I'm not willing to look it up.

the resemblance is uncanny

2012-01-20T12:31:00.002-06:00

Like a freak show image of our noble captain

Beavis and Butthead

Patriotic marketing gimmicks

2012-01-19T15:43:00.001-06:00

Various people had their hands on it, adding as little as a word or two, but the credit for the bulk of the pledge goes to Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931), a Baptist minister from New York. Bellamy had some interesting political ideas — he was a Christian Socialist who believed in the equal distribution of economic resources in accordance with the teachings of Jesus, but not the distribution of voting rights to women or immigrants.

By 1891, Bellamy was tired of his ministry and accepted a job from one of his congregants, Daniel S. Ford, owner and editor of Youth’s Companion, a nationally circulated magazine for adolescents. Bellamy was hired to help out the magazine’s premium department, where he worked on a campaign to sell American flags to public schools as a way to solicit subscriptions. By the end of the year, the magazine had sold flags to some 26,000 schools. But there were still more than a few holdouts.

Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?

presented without commentary or anything else, really.

2012-01-17T17:47:00.001-06:00

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1419813145/

a little more than halfway though, so what have we learned?

2012-01-17T10:13:00.005-06:00

"The coldest gaze is that which you cast upon yourself" - Dr. Trent Stone

Well, I've learned that my searing passion for Michael Bolton led me to immensely overvalue Bolton Wanderers. And common sense led me to immensely undervalue Norwich and Swansea. Other than that, it's not that far off. This is how I gain your trust.

vegetable orchestra

2012-01-16T15:16:00.001-06:00

it only goes up to august, but...

2012-01-14T16:49:00.000-06:00

@dadboner

robot fish

2012-01-14T11:53:00.001-06:00

best YouTube comment:

"I COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME OF THE DARK LORD TO SPILL THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT....

...diddy dum diddy dooo"

Under water

2012-01-13T11:12:00.000-06:00

Fishing under ice

whistle

2012-01-12T09:47:00.001-06:00

Whistling is a funny skill: folks who can whistle, wonder how anyone could have a problem with it. Folks who can't, wonder how anyone could ever produce such a sound. For those of you who can't, consider learning--a quick, loud, penetrating whistle has many useful applications and can be mastered with relative ease. (Note: there's nothing here on whistling Dixie or any other tuneful amusement.)

How to whistle loudly

sums it all up

2012-01-11T11:49:00.001-06:00

this is a dream i had the other night

2012-01-11T06:24:00.001-06:00

today

2012-01-10T17:12:00.001-06:00

I speak for all of 3E today

2012-01-10T09:46:00.001-06:00

Tuesdays with John

2012-01-10T06:58:00.005-06:00

John stumbles forward through the restaurant. He is walking towards a stage upon which sits a small video screen, a microphone, and a large grey box with a keyboard and speaker in the front. He ascends the stage and opens a large blue binder. He flips rapidly through the songbook. He is barefoot and wearing a University of Alaska sweatshirt over what appears to be a youth karate uniform. His eyes are red and bleary -- he has not slept in two days, in preparation for what is to come.

His eyes finally light upon the page he is searching for, and John smiles a small smile. He punches into the keyboard three numerals, and the screen above it responds. Text appears over the background image of a small stream running through an autumnal forest: "486 - ARTIST: SHANIA TWAIN - SONG SELECTION: MAN! I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN!"

The machine begins to produce synthesized, beeping sounds. John holds the microphone up to his mouth, lips parted slightly before he begins. His mouth is dry, but he knows he must only sing for a short while. Outside a dog howls, and a baby begins to cry.

who refuses to subdue to these pelvic ostentations

2012-01-09T09:30:00.000-06:00

A partial list of the words you can't get on personalized jerseys from the NFL

2012-01-07T09:35:00.001-06:00

To celebrate the playoffs or something

666
3RD EYE
3RD LEG
3RDEYE
3RDLEG
AXING THE WEASEL
BARF FACE
BEASTALITY
BEASTIALITY
BREASTMAN
COCK NOB
DEAP THROAT
GAY MUTHA FUCKIN QUEER
GONZAGAS
HERSHY HIGH WAY
INSEST
JAPCRAP
MASTABATER
NEON DEON
POCKET POOL
RAE CARRUTH
SHAWTYPIMP
SPERM HEARDER
UPSKIRT

NFL's 1,159 Naughty Words

it ain't ar-kansas...

2012-01-06T19:24:00.001-06:00

Friday links: four for wes edition

2012-01-06T09:49:00.007-06:00

1. Worldmap

2. Horse eComics

3. Louis vs Rick

4. Alien Autopsy

Doctors and death

2012-01-05T09:44:00.002-06:00

It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.

Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They’ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right).

Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people. That’s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.” They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.

How Doctors Die

3E's New Year's Resolutions

2012-01-04T04:34:00.000-06:00

Live our lives as if this song were always playing in the background

Time to get back to regular posting schedules

2012-01-03T09:26:00.002-06:00

Or maybe not, we'll see.

SERIOUSLY, VEGASBOT...

2012-01-02T11:10:00.002-06:00

WHY DID YOU SUCK THAT ONE YEAR?

VEGASBOT: 18 - 5
CHARLESBOT: 14 - 9
CAPTAINBOT: 13 - 10

bwahaahahappy new year

2012-01-01T10:35:00.002-06:00

here is what has and what will happen

2011-12-28T22:48:00.002-06:00

AS A MATTER OF FACT

2011-12-26T22:00:00.002-06:00

Christmas

2011-12-25T04:31:00.000-06:00

3Even Steven

2011-12-24T22:56:00.001-06:00

1.1

3E Winter Meeting Report

2011-12-22T11:28:00.000-06:00

Success!

sorry everybody, i was busy

2011-12-16T18:54:00.004-06:00

So I'm not going to write blurbs or whatever. I'm done. Here are the CRISIS games. For the interested observer, Chaz has the favorite in 8 of the 13.

Bowl
Date
Chaz'z Pick vs. Tha Captainz Pick

St. Petersburg Bowl
12/20/11
Marshall vs. FIU

Hawai'i Bowl
12/24/11
Nevada vs. Southern Miss

Military Bowl
12/28/11
Toledo vs. Air Force

Holiday Bowl
12/28/11
California vs. Texas

Pinstripe Bowl
12/30/11
Rutgers vs. Iowa State

Kraft Fights Hunger Bowl
12/31/11
UCLA vs. Illinois

Peach Bowl
12/31/11
Auburn vs. Virginia

Outback Bowl
1/2/12
Michigan St. vs. Georgia

Capital One Bowl
1/2/12
South Carolina vs. Nebraska

Rose Bowl
1/2/12
Oregon vs. Wisconsin

Sugar Bowl
1/3/12
Michigan vs. Virginia Tech

BBVA Compass Bowl
1/7/12
Pittsburgh vs. SMU

BCS National Championship
1/9/12
LSU vs. Alabama

Charles picks some bowls

2011-12-16T11:42:00.003-06:00

New Mexico Bowl
12/17/11
Temple (-6.5) vs. Wyoming
I got to see a good pick of Temple on the teevee because of the NBA lock-out. Good start!
My pick: TEMPLE

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
12/17/11
Utah St. (-2.5) vs. THE Ohio University
Utah State has the momentum. They're also better than their record suggests.
My pick: UTAH STATE

New Orleans Bowl
12/17/11
San Diego St. (-4.5) vs. UL-Lafayette
ULL is much closer to home, but isn't there a lot of talk that their coach might be going somewhere else? That's reason enough to pick the favorite.
My pick: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SAN DIEGO STATE

St. Petersburg Bowl
12/20/11
Marshall vs. FIU (-4)
Marshall's coach is actually named Doc Holliday. Plus, I heard a rumor that Mario Cristal Ball is going to get hired at Pitt. Our first upset selection!
My pick: MARSHALL

Poinsettia Bowl
12/21/11
Louisiana Tech vs. TCU (-10.5)
I almost picked an upset here, for the letdown factor etc, but TCU is just way better than La Tech.
My pick: TCU

Las Vegas Bowl
12/22/11
Arizona St. vs. Boise St. (-14)
Arizona State hired a huge dick of a coach, and their players know it, and this has been a terrible season. BSU isn't going to be excited about this, I don't think, but their opponents probably just want this thing to get over. Neither of these teams should be here, for opposite reasons.
My pick: BOISE STATE

Hawai'i Bowl
12/24/11
Nevada vs. Southern Miss (-6)
SEE I MET THIS WOMAN FROM HAWAII/STUCK IT IN HER ASS AND SHE SAID AAIII
My pick: NEVADA

Independence Bowl
12/26/11
Missouri (-5) vs. North Carolina
North Carolina is not very good, and neither is Missouri, but they are on a winning streak. In a couple of years this will be an intraconference game.
My pick: MISSOURA

Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl
12/27/11
Purdue (-2.5) vs. Western Michigan
This should be a fun game. Going with the name brand football program. Wait, no, that doesn't work. Going with the better team. No, not that either. WeMU lost to Michigan by 24; Purdue only lost by 22. I pick the Boilermakers by 2.
My pick: PURDUE

Belk Bowl
12/27/11
NC State (-3) vs. Louisville
Here's two pretty uneven teams. I am guessing more than usual.
My pick: LOUISVILLE

Military Bowl
12/28/11
Air Force vs. Toledo (-3)
I would have picked Toledo, because they're actually pretty good and their offense is strong, but then their coached left. But then the offensive coordinator was named coach, so he'll want to do a good job and the offense will want to look good for him. So, yeah.
My pick: TOLEDO

Holiday Bowl
12/28/11
California vs. Texas (-3)
The Holiday Bowl is frequently a destination for teams I feel like should have gone to a bigger bowl game. But then, not always. I don't think I watched much Cal this year, but they appear to have finished strong. I watched Texas a fair bit and was not impressed.
My pick: CALIFORNIA

Champs Sports Bowl
12/29/11
Notre Dame vs. Florida St. (-3)
Catholics vs. Indigenous Peoples, round 2! I think Brian Kelly is a better coach, and I watched the Florida-Florida State game.
My pick: NOTRE DAME

Alamo Bowl
12/29/11
Washington vs. Baylor (-9)
Take a drink every time someone mentions the Heisman and a shot for each mention of Superman, socks, or Superman socks. Also: Washington is not a good football team.
My pick: BAY, LORD OF THE BEARS

Armed Forces Bowl
12/30/11
Tulsa vs. BYU (-3)
If I were a betting man, I would take the over on this game, which I've seen in the mid-50s. I am picking BYU just because they ended the regular season in a stronger fashion.
My pick: BYU

Pinstripe Bowl
12/30/11
Iowa St. vs. Rutgers (-1.5)
Rutgers, I guess, is kind of at home.
My pick: RUTGERS

Music City Bowl
12/30/11
Mississippi St. (-7) vs. Wake Forest
Wake Forest got blown out by Vanderbilt. Mississippi State is at least as good as Vanderbilt. People seem to think that Mississippi State is having a down year, but they've lost to a bunch of ten-win teams and the defending national champ at that team's season peak.
My pick: MISSISSIPPI STATE

Insight Bowl
12/30/11
Oklahoma (-14) vs. Iowa
Oklahoma is way better. If they're unhappy about the lower bowl and don't play well, they win comfortably. If they're angry and play like it, blowout.
My pick: OKLAHOMA

Texas Bowl
12/31/11
Texas A&M (-10) vs. Northwestern
This is a tough pick. Texas A&M is a better team, but their coach got fired and this is not the kind of bowl game they expected at the start of this season. I am going with the team that's more emotionally invested.
My pick: NORTHWESTERN

Sun Bowl
12/31/11
Georgia Tech (-3.5) vs. Utah
Georgia Tech is better, but Utah is well-coached and will have plenty of time to get ready for the option.
My pick: UTAH

Liberty Bowl
12/31/11
Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt (-2.5)
I think Vanderbilt was close to being a pretty good team this year. It was too far apart in the season to mean anything, but Vanderbilt did lose closer to their common opponent Tennessee.
My pick: VANDY

Kraft Fights Hunger Bowl
12/31/11
UCLA vs. Illinois (-2.5)
When people talk about there being too many bowl games, they think they're talking about games like Tulsa-BYU, but they are really talking about games like this. Two bad, headless losers flailing like bad, headless children. They're playing in a stupid bowl game with a dumb name. It is closer to UCLA's campus, and that is how I am picking.
My pick: UCLA

Peach Bowl
12/31/11
Virginia vs. Auburn (-1.5)
When you get right down to it, these aren't very good teams. Both teams got blown out by their rivals, but Auburn's rivals are much better than Virginia's. Losing Mike Dyer hurts, but Auburn has still got quality running backs, and the coaches seem to have forgotten about him anyway.
My pick: AUBURN, BECAUSE HEY, WHY NOT?

Ticket City Bowl
1/2/12
Penn St. vs. Houston (-5.5)
I imagine that Penn State will not give this game their undivided attention. There's a good chance that Houston will be a bit unhappy about missing a BCS bowl, but that will wear off by January. I would be more surprised by a Penn State win than by a Houston blow-out.
My pick: HOUSTON

Outback Bowl
1/2/12
Michigan St. vs. Georgia (-4)
I still am not convinced that Georgia is a very good team. Better than average? Sure. But they haven't beaten what I would call a strong team all season. Their best win is ... maybe Georgia Tech? That just doesn't do a lot for me. Michigan State, on the other hand, has looked good against good teams.
My pick: MICHIGAN STATE

Capital One Bowl
1/2/12
South Carolina (-2.5) vs. Newbraska
This is a pretty interesting game. South Carolina looked very good against Clemson. I think the Capital One Bowl is big enough that they won't feel bad about missing the SEC title game or a better bowl (which is what happened when they played in Birmingham).
My pick: SAKERLINA

Gator Bowl
1/2/12
Florida (-2) vs. Ohio St.
Part of me imagines that Charlie Weis is out of the way, and Florida suddenly has one of the two or three best offenses in America. But probably not, because Florida sucks. A mediocre match-up of mediocre teams.
My pick: AN OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Rose Bowl
1/2/12
Wisconsin vs. Oregon (-6)
This should be fun. Two offenses that are very good in different ways. Wisconsin is strong, but I don't see them keeping up with Oregon, a team with some of the best skill players in the country and who very easily could have been playing for the national title.
My pick: OREGON

Fiesta Bowl
1/2/12
Oklahoma St. (-3.5) vs. Stanford
This should be fun. Two offenses that are very good in different ways. Stanford is strong, but I don't see them keeping up with Oklahoma State, a team with some of the best skill players in the country and who very easily could have been playing for the national title.
My pick: OKLAHOMA STATE

Sugar Bowl
1/3/12
Virginia Tech vs. Michigan (-2.5)
Like Georgia, Virginia Tech has a fancy record but little reason to think that they're very good. Michigan, in contrast, has played (and beaten!) good teams.
My pick: MICHIGAN

Orange Bowl
1/4/12
Clemson (-3.5) vs. West Virginia
The ACC is a lot better than the Big East. I think Dana Holgorsen is a fine coach, better than his opponent, but Clemson is just the stronger team overall.
My pick: CLEMSON

Cotton Bowl
1/6/12
Kansas St. vs. Arkansas (-8)
Bill Snyder is the best coach in America. I still think Arkansas wins, because they're a much better team, but close.
My pick: ARKANSAS

BBVA Compass Bowl
1/7/12
SMU vs. Pittsburgh (-5)
I have heard that Pittsburgh's team is really upset about their coach leaving. Will that come out as an angry team playing hard, or a flat team going through the motions? I think angry. Also, neither of these teams are very good, SMU particularly.
My pick: PITT

GoDaddy.com Bowl
1/8/12
Arkansas St.(-1.5) vs. Northern Illinois
I'm surprised ASU is favored, as Northern Illinois finished with basically the same record in a tougher conference against a tougher schedule. Arkansas State is also going through a coaching change. Arkansas State seems pretty excited about their new coach, but interim coaches often have trouble. Also I am still partial to NIU for upsetting Alabama several years ago.
My pick: NORTHERN ILLINOIS

BCS National Championship
1/9/12
LSU (-1) vs. Alabama
LSU is the better team and won the first match-up at Alabama. Also, even if Alabama wins this game, I would vote LSU number one, because LSU played a tougher schedule and won the game in Tuscaloosa.
My pick: LSU

Taekwondo finger

2011-12-15T13:33:00.000-06:00

After looking over my pix...

2011-12-14T14:48:00.002-06:00

I'm conceding the 2011 3E Bowl Pick Them.

Congratulations to all who participated.

holy crap, everybody

2011-12-14T13:51:00.000-06:00

I left the Tickey City Bowl off that list!

Scale, politics, and historians

2011-12-14T11:18:00.001-06:00

Where, when, why, and how did this renunciation happen? When did the American left, such as it is, abandon scale as a worthy topic? As a historical matter, where can we locate the demise of "small is beautiful" liberal politics? Why is the argument for a devolution of power right wing? Why is the dial on American "progressive" politics stuck on the "massive" setting? None of this just happened. It's a development with roots, and with dire effects.

Small Is Horrible

New Mexico jokes

2011-12-13T05:50:00.001-06:00

get pumped get pumped

2011-12-12T11:15:00.002-06:00

Matchemups. Lines are today's lines from sportsbook.com. Picks on Friday.

New Mexico Bowl
12/17/11
Temple (-6.5) vs. Wyoming

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
12/17/11
Utah St. (-2.5) vs. THE Ohio University

New Orleans Bowl
12/17/11
San Diego St. (-4.5) vs. UL-Lafayette

St. Petersburg Bowl
12/20/11
Marshall vs. FIU (-4)

Poinsettia Bowl
12/21/11
Louisiana Tech vs. TCU (-10.5)

Las Vegas Bowl
12/22/11
Arizona St. vs. Boise St. (-14)

Hawai'i Bowl
12/24/11
Nevada vs. Southern Miss (-6)

Independence Bowl
12/26/11
Missouri (-5) vs. North Carolina

Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl
12/27/11
Purdue (-2.5) vs. Western Michigan

Belk Bowl
12/27/11
NC State (-3) vs. Louisville

Military Bowl
12/28/11
Air Force vs. Toledo (-3)

Holiday Bowl
12/28/11
California vs. Texas (-3)

Champs Sports Bowl
12/29/11
Notre Dame vs. Florida St. (-3)

Alamo Bowl
12/29/11
Washington vs. Baylor (-9)

Armed Forces Bowl
12/30/11
Tulsa vs. BYU (-3)

Pinstripe Bowl
12/30/11
Iowa St. vs. Rutgers (-1.5)

Music City Bowl
12/30/11
Mississippi St. (-7) vs. Wake Forest

Insight Bowl
12/30/11
Oklahoma (-14) vs. Iowa

Texas Bowl
12/31/11
Texas A&M (-10) vs. Northwestern

Sun Bowl
12/31/11
Georgia Tech (-3.5) vs. Utah

Liberty Bowl
12/31/11
Cincinnati vs. Vanderbilt (-2.5)

Kraft Fights Hunger Bowl
12/31/11
UCLA vs. Illinois (-2.5)

Peach Bowl
12/31/11
Virginia vs. Auburn (-1.5)

Outback Bowl
1/2/12
Michigan St. vs. Georgia (-4)

Capital One Bowl
1/2/12
South Carolina (-2.5) vs. Nebraska

Gator Bowl
1/2/12
Florida (-2) vs. Ohio St.

Rose Bowl
1/2/12
Wisconsin vs. Oregon (-6)

Fiesta Bowl
1/2/12
Oklahoma St. (-3.5) vs. Stanford

Sugar Bowl
1/3/12
Virginia Tech vs. Michigan (-2.5)

Orange Bowl
1/4/12
Clemson (-3.5) vs. West Virginia

Cotton Bowl
1/6/12
Kansas St. vs. Arkansas (-8)

BBVA Compass Bowl
1/7/12
SMU vs. Pittsburgh (-5)

GoDaddy.com Bowl
1/8/12
Arkansas St.(-1.5) vs. Northern Illinois

BCS National Championship
1/9/12
LSU (-1) vs. Alabama

metal monday

2011-12-12T07:29:00.001-06:00

Vivaldi Four Seasons Summer Theme Cover

Tebow time

2011-12-10T05:09:00.001-06:00

Police militarization

2011-12-09T08:30:00.002-06:00

Within moments, and without Guerena firing a shot--or even switching his rifle off of "safety"--he lay dying, his body riddled with 60 bullets. A subsequent investigation revealed that the initial shot that prompted the S.W.A.T. team barrage came from a S.W.A.T. team gun, not Guerena's. Guerena, reports later revealed, had no criminal record, and no narcotics were found at his home.

Sadly, the Guerenas are not alone; in recent years we have witnessed a proliferation in incidents of excessive, military-style force by police S.W.A.T. teams, which often make national headlines due to their sheer brutality. Why has it become routine for police departments to deploy black-garbed, body-armored S.W.A.T. teams for routine domestic police work? The answer to this question requires a closer examination of post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy and the War on Terror.

How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police

3E approves

2011-12-08T15:09:00.002-06:00

3e is totally gay for cam newton

stiff little fingers

2011-12-08T14:30:00.001-06:00

I like this guy.

2011-12-07T12:22:00.001-06:00

still not seeing it.

2011-12-06T12:46:00.000-06:00

fun to make maps, though.

I like this guy

2011-12-06T06:25:00.000-06:00

Pareidolia Monday

2011-12-05T09:40:00.001-06:00

1. "Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek para- – "beside", "with", or "alongside"—meaning, in this context, something faulty or wrong (as in paraphasia, disordered speech) and eidōlon – "image"; the diminutive of eidos – "image", "form", "shape". Pareidolia is a type of apophenia."

2. An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech

almost here, you guys

2011-12-04T12:55:00.002-06:00

in a sea of chaos, it's nice to know the sun belt is out there...

2011-12-04T12:49:00.001-06:00

keepin it well ordered.

THIS JUST IN

2011-12-02T18:27:00.001-06:00

SCHOOLS I'VE APPLIED TO SHOW LITTLE OR NO CORRELATION TO LIGHTNING STRIKE DENSITY.

oh yeah i'm going for it

2011-12-02T17:45:00.001-06:00

Georgia (+13.5) vs. Louisiana St.

Bombers

2011-12-02T09:37:00.000-06:00

During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he recommended adding more armor to the places where there was no damage!

This seems backward at first, but Wald realized his data came from bombers that survived. That is, the British were only able to analyze the bombers that returned to England; those that were shot down over enemy territory were not part of their sample. These bombers’ wounds showed where they could afford to be hit. Said another way, the undamaged areas on the survivors showed where the lost planes must have been hit because the planes hit in those areas did not return from their missions.

Selection bias and bombers

Last pick nerds

2011-12-01T20:35:00.002-06:00

Last week, I went 6-2 straight up and 4-4 against the line. That puts me at 69-12 straight up and 42-39 against the line. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line. It all comes down to this final pick.

Georgia (+13.5) vs. LSU

this just in

2011-12-01T09:14:00.003-06:00

Wes' family photo Christmas card finally arrived!

Don't bring me down, gruuuuuuuuuuuuuus

2011-11-30T09:36:00.000-06:00

It seems like we've played this song on the Blog before. Yet here we are.

So here is an unexpected thing

2011-11-29T14:08:00.001-06:00

Stanley Hudson is Leslie David Baker.

Two chart Tuesday

2011-11-29T09:27:00.000-06:00

1. Orwell vs. Huxley

2. Media consolidation

"Too bad."

2011-11-28T09:24:00.001-06:00

Just that kind of day.

sadly, the happiest i'll be all day is looking at this...

2011-11-26T13:52:00.001-06:00

Black Friday

2011-11-26T10:30:00.002-06:00

The latest Target ads show a woman (comedian Maria Bamford, whom I will refer to simply as ‘the crazy Target lady’, as I’ve seen her called in some comments on YouTube) ‘gearing up’ for the approaching Black Friday sales. There are several commercials portraying ‘the crazy Target lady’, most often dressed in red and exhibiting physical strength which she’ll no doubt need to trample on other people while running maniacally through the aisles of Target, maybe for an XBOX Kinect™ for her husband, a Fisher Price Imaginext Bigfoot the Monster™ for her son, or maybe Disney Princess and Me Dolls™ for her daughter. These commercials seem ‘cute’ and ‘funny’, but the subtext is clear: We, the consumers, are insane—and that’s what corporate America is counting on.

‘The crazy Target lady’ is insane, and this is how Target and Wal*Mart and every other superstore we’ll shop at this holiday season views us—mindless consumers willing to harm ourselves and others for a chance to save miniscule amounts of money on things we don’t need to survive. Target and Wal*Mart and every other superstore think the American people are insane, so this is how they portray us in their commercials. And this is in no small part due to the fact that their commercials have pumped this idea into our brains for so many years that this is exactly how we behave. We are insane.

‘The Crazy Target Lady’, or Why You Might Get Trampled to Death This Holiday Season…

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

2011-11-25T12:01:00.000-06:00

AND HERE'S WHERE IT'S GONE. MORE HIPSTERY THAN THE THINGS CHARLES LISTENS TO.

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

2011-11-25T10:49:00.001-06:00

AND HERE'S WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT.

BLACK FRIDAY MEANS BLACK METAL

2011-11-25T10:43:00.002-06:00

my picks are on time despite the holiday so there

2011-11-24T09:46:00.002-06:00

Man, I don't like favorites.

Arkansas (+12) at Louisiana State
Georgia (-6) at Georgia Tech
Tennessee (-7.5) at Kentucky
Alabama (-21) at Auburn
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at Wake Forest
Florida State (-1.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+17) at Mississippi State
Clemson (+4) at South Carolina

Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T04:54:00.002-06:00

It's a 3E tradition.

Week 14 picks kind of early because of Thanksgiving

2011-11-23T08:21:00.002-06:00

Last week, I went 3-1 straight up and 2-2 against the line. That puts me at 63-10 straight up and 38-35 against the line. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Arkansas (+12) at LSU
Georgia (-6) at Georgia Tech
TENNESSEE (-7.5) at Kentucky
Alabama (-21) at Auburn
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at WAKE FOREST
FLORIDA STATE (-1.5) at Florida
Ole Miss (+17) at MISSISSIPPI STATE
Clemson (+4) at SOUTH CAROLINA

Clothes in The Godfather

2011-11-21T13:33:00.000-06:00

Every and each year, I take a day to watch The Godfather trilogy back-to-back-to-back. If I manage to do that more than once a year, I feel even better about myself. I've been deeply in love with these films since I first discovered them so many years ago - and every time someone asks me what's my favorite movie (a question that a film critic hears quite often), I never hesitate before answering "The Godfather - all nine hours of it".

[...]

The last time I watched the films, however, I was struck by Kay's clothes.

(Note: the color of her costumes change somewhat dramatically depending of the media: in VHS/DVD, they're mostly orange; in Blu-ray, the red becomes more evident.)

Yes, it would be impossible not to notice her dress when she visits the Corleone compound while looking for Michael (who's hiding in Sicily) - its intense orange/red color basically screams against the grey and the black usually seen on the clothes of her boyfriend's family. And it's pretty clear the idea behind this choice is to stress how distant Kay is from the dark universe of the Corleones.

But if you pay close attention to how Kay's clothes change during the three films you'll realize how brilliant the visual logic of the trilogy is.

Showing a weakness for orage/red tones on her clothing from her very first scene, Kay is always seen wearing costumes dominated by those colors during the sequences in which she's still a single woman.

The Clothes of Kay Corleone

Dam breach

2011-11-18T13:38:00.000-06:00

Explosive Breach of Condit Dam

finally

2011-11-17T13:21:00.001-06:00

Kentucky (+30.5) at Georgia
Mississippi State (+13) at Arkansas
Louisiana St. (-30) at Ole Miss
Vanderbilt (-1.5) at Tennessee

People name their childern after sardays like this.

for wester

2011-11-17T09:10:00.000-06:00

Week 13: we're almost done

2011-11-17T08:21:00.003-06:00

Last week, I went 7-0 straight up and 4-3 against the line. That puts me at 60-9 straight up and 36-33 against the line. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line. This might be the worst weekly line-up of SEC games I have ever seen.

Kentucky (+30.5) at GEORGIA
Mississippi State (+13) at ARKANSAS
LSU (-30) at Ole Miss
VANDERBILT (-1.5) at Tennessee

Auburn, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina all play lower-division competition this weekend.

I don't think I've remembered to mention it before, but I get these lines from College Football Locks.

Forever Lazy commercial

2011-11-16T10:09:00.002-06:00

This commercial is pretty sad, in a "dumbing of America/Idiocracy is coming true/this is for adults?" kind of way. I'm more interested in it as a reflection of cultural norms and, more specifically, gender construction and heteronormativity. Watching not terribly carefully, I see one woman in gray and another in navy blue, plus the magic transition at the end of the commercial. All the rest (notably every woman younger than about forty) wear pink. No man in the commercial wears a pink one. There is a place out there for an American Studies or Gender Studies dissertation, or at least a seminar paper, regarding how gender roles are construed in mass market, direct-order TV advertising.

Also, if I saw someone wearing one of these in public I would assume that person was retarded, not in a pejorative sense but unable to get it together enough to wear anything else.

Ole Miss futility football

2011-11-15T06:05:00.001-06:00

Surely this can't be correct ... can it?

As I watched the Rebels lose by twenty points to Louisiana Tech, I began looking for any reason to stick around in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium just before halftime, as I'm not one to leave games early. After quickly scanning the field and then the stands, and realizing that I would have nothing more interesting to do, I casually glanced at the sign somone on our sideline was holding up at the moment to signal what I would presume was a play call to our players. At that moment, we had the ball on offense, and the signaler happened to hold up a sign that read "T.S."

I joked with the people unfortunate enough to still be in the stadium at that moment that I would bet that wideout Tobias Singleton would be getting the ball.

"Ha," I thought. "Wouldn't that be hilarious?"

Then..... he did. On a speed sweep. No big deal, I thought. I just sorta lucked into that one, right? Then.... we watched the playcalling signs for the rest of the game.

somebody's poorly drawn comic Monday

2011-11-14T09:36:00.000-06:00

frankly, i've always had a taste for livin.

2011-11-14T06:57:00.001-06:00

METAL MONDAY HAS NEVER BEEN SO METAL

2011-11-14T04:20:00.000-06:00

ALSO THIS JUST IN

2011-11-12T09:39:00.000-06:00

FUCK MILLSAPS

this just in again

2011-11-12T02:41:00.001-06:00

Georgia fans are the worst.

Yelping with Cormac

2011-11-11T09:30:00.001-06:00

This is fun: Yelping with Cormac.

Forever 21

Union Square - San Francisco, CA

Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM

Two stars.

The first woman I been with was a gal named Mabel Rae down in Plano. She was the second prettiest woman I ever did see. I was eighteen years of age at the time and she was twenty one. She was a whore down on Gas Street. I suppose that may shock some folks. Layin down with a whore like I did. But I see these young things on the street everday wearing clothes would of made Mabel Rae blush. Dont seem like progress to me.

Ever time I rode through Plano I stopped by Gas Street to see Mabel Rae. Now dont misunderstand me. The nature of our acquaintance changed when I met Alice. These were social calls. Mabel Rae always wore the same dress and the same hair but the rest of her aged. Plano was a tough town and she took her licks like everbody else. Werent nothin glamorous about it.

When she was about 35 years of age she took to drink pretty good. Started just fallin apart. I aint proud to say I stopped callin. I caint tell you what happened to her. I’m not sure anybody knows.

I like to think of Mabel Rae when she was twenty one years of age. I reckon she’ll always be that age to me.

I TOO WENT 5 - 1 LAST WEEK NOW AM 56 - 12

2011-11-10T16:34:00.002-06:00

HEY IT'S LIKE A NUDE BEACH NOBODY COVERS LOL

Florida (+3.5) at South Carolina
Kentucky (+13.5) at Vanderbilt
Auburn (+12.5) at Georgia
Tennessee (+14) at Arkansas
Western Kentucky (+41.5) at Louisiana St
La Tech (-2) at Ole Miss
Alabama (-17.5) at Mississippi State

Week 12 corrected score picks

2011-11-10T09:17:00.005-06:00

Thanks to tha Cap'n for clearing this up: I had a score of 53-9 straight up and 32-30 against the line going into last week. Then I went 5-1 and 4-2 last week. That brings me up, I think, to 58-10 overall and 36-32 against the spread.

So, with that out of the way, here are the current picks. This week has some more unusual lines: Vandy is a 13.5 point favorite in an SEC game and an SEC team is an underdog to Louisiana Tech. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Florida (+3.5) at SOUTH CAROLINA
Kentucky (+13.5) at Vanderbilt
Auburn (+12.5) at Georgia
Tennessee (+14) at ARKANSAS
Western Kentucky (+41.5) at Lsu
LA TECH (-2) at Ole Miss
ALABAMA (-17.5) at Mississippi State

Georgia Week: Admittedly adorable but that won't save you

2011-11-09T09:55:00.000-06:00

SCENES FROM THE MILLSUCKS TALENT SHOW

2011-11-08T18:52:00.001-06:00

Top Comment: Imagine if this was the obstacle course for Legends of the Hidden Temple

Universities

2011-11-08T10:22:00.003-06:00

Yet American universities also attract ferocious criticism, much of it from professors and from journalists who know them well, and that’s entirely reasonable too. Every coin has its other side, every virtue its corresponding vice—and practically every university its festering sores. At the most prestigious medical schools, professors publish the work of paid flacks for pharmaceutical companies under their own names. At many state universities and more than a few private ones, head football and basketball coaches earn millions and their assistants hundreds of thousands for running semiprofessional teams. Few of these teams earn much money for the universities that sponsor them, and some brutally exploit their players.

At competitive private colleges and universities, admissions directors reserve places in each class for the children of alumni and potential donors; for athletes, many of whom will make less use of their academic opportunities than their classmates do; and simply for those who can pay. And at universities that boast of their commitment to undergraduate teaching, too many professors gabble through PowerPoint slides twice a week and entrust the face-to-face teaching of actual students to underpaid graduate students and Ph.D.s on short-term contracts, who do their best to impart basic skills in writing and quantitative analysis while earning only a few thousand dollars a course.

It’s not hard to see why colleges and universities resist simple evaluations. There are now almost five thousand universities and colleges—both two-year and four-year—in the US. Millions attend them, including around 40 percent of eighteen-to-twenty-four-year-old Americans and a great many older students. Postsecondary education stretches from the tree-shaded Olympuses of the Ivy-plus private group and the imposing quadrangles of the great public universities to urban community colleges that run twelve hours a day, surrounded only by vast parking lots that are never big enough to accommodate everyone. It’s private and public, mass and elite, ancient and ivy-covered, contemporary and cutting-edge. No generalization could do justice to this vast and varied scene.

Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?

HATE WEEK.

2011-11-07T17:16:00.000-06:00

THERE REALLY AREN'T ANY OTHER VIDEOS OF MILLSUCKS.

Georgia Week: Not sure how I feel about the "wa ah ah ah" music

2011-11-07T09:52:00.002-06:00

hey i know him

2011-11-04T13:58:00.000-05:00

Friday links

2011-11-04T12:09:00.000-05:00

1. Tebow Tebow comments

2. Annoying sound

3. Doodle Or Die is so fun

Mike Tyson song

2011-11-04T07:33:00.000-05:00

bc a guy died

2011-11-03T17:50:00.002-05:00

a guy who isn't in this video. but a guy nonetheless.

UPDATE: BETTER!

SEC PICK THEMS POST

2011-11-03T17:27:00.005-05:00

by my haphazard and (DARE I SAY) slapdash calculation I'm at 51 - 11 strait up which is xtrakrzy because that's a different total than Charlos's 54 - 9. It doesn't matter. I'm certainly not trying to figger out my ATS reck.

UPDATE: Since Charles won't count I'm going to assume I missed a win.

52 - 11.

UPDATE: Just noticed that Charles's strait up and ATS records don't total to the same thing. Maybe I AM a mere 51 - 11.

UPDATE: 62 games have been picked. I'm going to be the better man and admit that my original 51 - 11 was correct and that other asshole is cooking the books ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

UPDATE: you've only got 9 losses, bro. EVERYONE, CHARLES IS ONLY 53 - 9.

PICK UMZ

2011-11-03T14:44:00.002-05:00

Vanderbilt (+14) at Florida
New Mexico State (+33.5) at Georgia
Ole Miss (-2) at Kentucky
Middle Tennessee State (+20.5) at Tennessee
South Carolina (+5) at ARKANSAS
Louisiana St. (+4.5) at ALABAMA

Week 10 pickums

2011-11-03T11:10:00.002-05:00

Last week I went 4-1 straight-up and 3-2 against the line. That puts me at 54-9 and 32-30, respectively, for the season overall. Once again for this week, bold to win, caps to cover the line.

Unlike some weeks, when it feels like the line would be free money (especially for Alabama games), to me this looks like the toughest week yet. If I were putting real money down, this week I would not bet on any games except Ole Miss. Maybe Arkansas.

Vanderbilt (+14) at Florida
New Mexico State (+33.5) at Georgia
OLE MISS (-2) at Kentucky
Middle Tennessee State (+20.5) at TENNESSEE
South Carolina (+5) at ARKANSAS
LSU (+4.5) at Alabama

Mississippi State is playing an FCS opponent.

acc football presents: this just in

2011-11-02T05:03:00.002-05:00

Wealth inequality

2011-11-01T13:17:00.002-05:00

In lieu of the rule of law — the equal application of rules to everyone — what we have now is a two-tiered justice system in which the powerful are immunized while the powerless are punished with increasing mercilessness. As a guarantor of outcomes, the law has, by now, been so completely perverted that it is an incomparably potent weapon for entrenching inequality further, controlling the powerless, and ensuring corrupted outcomes.

The tide that was supposed to lift all ships has, in fact, left startling numbers of Americans underwater. In the process, we lost any sense that a common set of rules applies to everyone, and so there is no longer a legitimizing anchor for the vast income and wealth inequalities that plague the nation.

That is what has changed, and a growing recognition of what it means is fueling rising citizen anger and protest. The inequality under which so many suffer is not only vast, but illegitimate, rooted as it is in lawlessness and corruption. Obscuring that fact has long been the linchpin for inducing Americans to accept vast and growing inequalities. That fact is now too glaring to obscure any longer.

Immunity and Impunity in Elite America

more halloween

2011-10-31T18:14:00.001-05:00

halloween

2011-10-31T08:32:00.001-05:00