March 2010
6 posts
“Happiness is an inside job.”
– Sylvia Boorstein
“Most of the brothers don’t make the kind of scratch I do.”
– Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell of the Celtics (in 1984) after he endorsed Jesse Helms for re-election and was asked by a reporter if he realized that he might be the only black man in North Carolina voting for Jesse Helms.
“Batman’s Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven...”
– Batman writer and editor Dennis O’Neil
Not sure when he said this, but he needs to add a “in the 1970s” to the end, otherwise I am left with an image of Gotham that involves lots of drunk college kids and rich folks.
“The most difficult adjustment I had to make was to let go of the idea of “the...”
– From ilivehere:SF. My new favorite blog.
“Since 1982, 2,958 elections have been held for individual Senate and Assembly...”
– From an article in the NYTimes.
Recently, I have started to notice pseudo stats. Numbers that seem to imply something profound, but are missing the data that matters. Take the quote above. On first read, the numbers above seem to indicate that ~ 99% of all incumbents win (or at least, that is...