Collecting My Thoughts

I don't check my blog stats too often because I write for myself, not others, but recently I'd noticed a huge increase in the hits o...

Dog Bite week used to be in April, but now it gets a whole month. June. The 2025 National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign by the United States ...

We hear a lot about "the average American" but what exactly is that? According to the Washington Post, the average American is a w...

As my memory becomes less sharp, it's nice to find markers and reminders, many of which I don't even recognize, in my blog posts. T...

When reading statistics, watch the terms. Rank, rate, number, percent. For instance, Alaska RANKS 4th in the nation for black homicides. ...

NO. Hate crimes are not on the increase, and shame on the MSM for repeating that lie. "Our data sets keep expanding. We have higher num...

This non-profit has been launched by Steve Ballmer and wife Connie.  Although most non-profits established by wealthy capitalists claim to b...

In the statistics course I'm taking (online) I'm definitely way beyond the normal distribution and beyond the 3rd standard deviation...

Each state compiles crime statistics and sends them on to the appropriate federal agency which then sorts and recompiles them into different...

Lunchtime conversation may include, “I was looking at the UN statistics on homicide yesterday and noticed some very odd things.” Then the sp...

Page views last month (October, 2012)   20,440 Highest day, October 26, Cue balls Joe Biden, 368 Because it didn’t have this feature whe...

I've recently switched over to a new Blogger template, and although it takes some getting used to (I guess they have to have something f...

I've been blogging since October 2003--not sure how many posts--the count says 8,829 Posts (just for this blog), but I have deleted quit...

My stats are down, but not this bad The Daily Kos Oct: 82,893,374 May: 25,293,380 Change: A decrease of 57,599,994, or 69% Without Bush to h...

Rolled over 255,000 Yesterday at some point my site meter logged 255,000 hits. It would be nice if that meant everyone read something, but...

Misleading us on military deaths Perhaps you've seen it. The e-mail that's circulating comparing the number of military deaths dur...

The problem with economic squeeze stories There was another "economic squeeze" story in USAToday today. I think every reporter ...

Where that strange environmental data come from Thirteen hundred gallons of water to produce a quarter-pounder? That's based on an ag ...