Airport Delay
Airport security can cause problems for the anxious and insecure.
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America’s Got Talent: Amerigo
A little joke in recognition of the return to television of one of our nation’s favorite television shows, “America’s Got Talent.”
Glass Ceiling No More
Making Excuses: A Talent Quickly Mastered
Though some skills are years of training and education in the making, others come quite naturally.
Too much Weight Given to Stats
Analytics! Sounds like a substitute curse word for Shaggy of the Scooby Doo gang. Zoinks! And it’s a bit of a mystery to me why statistics seem to be overtaking common sense and the good ‘ol fashioned eyeball in governing business decisions. Consider the practice of applying metrics to talent evaluation in the world of sports (see here For example). The capabilities of athletes are being projected based on statistical research as much as on watching their highlight reels.
Social media decisions are driven by data as well. Moreover, The number of hits, friends, reTweets, etc. that a person amasses on their accounts can genuinely affect their emotional outlook on said media, on communication, on their relationships, on their life even.
I’m calling for a simple backpedal. Let’s allow statistics to help promote our decisions not determine them.
Lab Rats are of Great Benefit to Men
Rats. They have the icky factor in spades. Needless to say, these vermin are unwanted. But that is exactly why they are valuable to us humans. They have been purposed, above all other creatures, for scientific testing. They are not so much our enemies, these lab rats. They are our surrogates.
Here’s a fairly thorough article which details the history of the lab rat: http://theconversation.com/animals-in-research-rats-16634.
Check out the story and then, the next time you see one of these fine little fellows, you’ll be thanking them for how they’re helping humanity before you let out a blood-curdling scream.
Scream? Ghosts Make Me Yawn.
A Halloween-themed mini comic.
New England Patriots Deflategate
Back in the Revolutionary days, George Washington and other patriots crossed the Delaware.
In recent times, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and other Patriots crossed many Americans when it was discovered that 11 of 12 footballs used by their offense were deflated (Intentionally?) to a level beneath NFL standards.