Religion is where you find it.

Yesterday was a bit educational. The “bit” comes in largely from observing what went on in the Yankee government. We had (modern) democrats voting to reward corporate oligarchs for failure and (modern) republicans apparently paying heed to their constituents. Is there some fundamental aspect being revealed here or is it simply a matter of worrying about election?

But I did find the scape goating of Ms. Pelosi delightfully sectarian. Can we now consider political partisanship a newly recognized form of religious divisiveness? Is the deity a (modern) republican or a (modern) democrat, or, wonder for the world!, something else entirely with what looks like probability one?

The bit was further enlivened by finding out that the concentration of greehouse gases in the atmosphere went up by 0.03 last year. [Link] I do not want to enter into the discussion/debate/dissonance over whether global climate change is caused by humans primarily/partially/marginally/not-at-all. Such has become about as religious in character and stridency as the sugaring of Wall Street. The fundamental issue is not wo or what causes the matter but that humans ameliorate it before we have catastrophes that make wars and famines look tame.

And how about the “network” as religion. Certainly it has assumed the same dimensions and pervasive foundation for many people’s lives that the Roman Catholic did for serfs and peasants during the Middle Ages. So the question of whether Gooey is trying to secularize the “network” seems not inappropriate. [Link] The problem, I suspect, is that of the blinders over the eyes of analysts in the great metropolises who are out of touch with the hinterland of America. Yes, in the canyons of civilization the issue is which provider; in the wasteland that is the majority of American area, it is whether there is a provider available. And while the search for public WiFi is not quite as dismal as the search for a radio station that is not country, or some form of mystical rhetoric, either religious or political, if not both, the difference is scant in terms of discouragement.

Bilge Pump

One of the metaphors for nation-state is the ship. So far as I can tell from an interested but superficial literature survey – I have visited several libraries and reviewed their bound collections for books on the subject that I perused – the metaphor is at least as old as political cartoons.

I came to consider this after receiving an email from a colleague, Voltage Spin. The matter had started as part of an ongoing discussion of the demographics of nerdery with the new information I blogged on earlier on dyscalculia. My colleague interrupted with the diversion of how does one visualize the magnitude of the “bail out”? This reignited my consideration of the matter.

After some consideration, I advanced that the matter might be compared to the Manhattan Project. At the time, this was the biggest extraordinary project the Yankee government had yet attempted, and over the period for the Great Patriotic War and up until the Soviets exploded their own bomb several billions of dollars were spent on the program, which was considered horribly expensive. The program escaped public outcry by its security, of course.

Now since then, the cost of stuff has gone up by approximately two orders of magnitude. Put in a more exact sense, a penny in 1943 has (approximately) the buying value of a dollar in 2008. Comparisons on individual things are difficult but a combination of similar things relevant to both dates would pretty well bear this up.

So the Wall Street bail out is pretty much the same order of magnitude as the Manhattan Project. I leave consideration of the differences to the reader. But I will comment on two connotations associated with the term “bail”. One is to remove water from a boat to prevent it sinking. Unless the boat is grounded quickly, bailing is a continuous activity. The other meaning is to obtain the release of someone accused of criminal activity from jail. This is dependent on good behavior and appearance at trial.

Sancuary of Sanctuary

I noticed a letter to the New Yawk Times the other day from Harry Kamen. [Link] In it he argues, claims rather, that paying taxes is patriotic.

I would disagree with him. Paying taxes is a cost of living in this country. It falls on citizens and non-citizens alike albeit unequally. Mr. Kamen acknowledges this and caveats his claim “with a good heart”. I have to presume he is speaking metaphorically because he does not support any connection between cardiac health and paying taxes.

But what disturbs is when this is combined with an article from the Washington Times on how some pulpit pongos were supposed to defy the Yankee government yesterday and issue sermon endorsements of political candidates. [Link] At risk is loss of their tax free status, presumably as in non-profit organization since the matter is policed by the Yankee government’s Internal Revenue Service.

I have to admit to reading the latter article rather more avidly than the former, mostly because having been conceived and nurtured in the old Confederacy, I was totally unaware of any such restriction. So far as I can recall, preachers and ministers have always advanced the causes of those they favor. The absence, which has been rare, has been been limited to situations when none of those on the ballot were worthy of anything but silent condemnation.

So has the Yankee government been remiss all of these years? And why should we expect them to suddenly find any motivation now?

Education as Metamorphosis

Alexa Harrington has done it again. Earlier this week she posted a blot entitled “What is a College Education?” [Link] The content of that blot is and is not contained in the simplicity and directness of the title. And I have to admit to having treasured the considerations emerging from this blot.

Those considerations are multi-dimensional, as is the question itself, as are so many of these simply phrased questions. Some of those dimensions will, I am sure, never make the leap to a blot, but the question is one of great worth for the value of the answer.

In recent years we, as a society in the Yankee republic, have largely been spared the rigors of this question. Since the end of the Great Patriotic War, college attendance has become more and more part of the norm of young life, of the transition from adolescence to adulthood. As such the question of what is a college education has largely been abandoned in the lemming drive to attendance and a degree.

For as is typical of Americans we see college attendance and degree not in terms of a transformation but in terms of attainment. When I attended college, degrees were conferred or bestowed, today they have been reduced to possessions, bought with money. mostly money, and a bit of attention span and time. The difference is largely one of competition. Degrees that are conferred imply that one has been triumphant in some form of competition; degrees that are possessed are little more than warranties of services provided.

The springboard of Ms. Harrington’s blot is an article in the Dartmouth Review “What is a College Education?” by Jeffrey Hart. [Link] Professor Hart prescribes what he thinks is a college education by a comprehension of what he calls “Jerusalem and Athens”. This is achieved by reading a series of books he lists, and thinking about these writings within the context of lectures about them.

I must take exception with Professor Hart. I should recognize that Ms. Harrington takes exception also but in a much more civilized manner than myself. My overall objection is with Professor Hart’s simplicity which admits of excluding enormous portions of what college education is about. Fundamentally, what Professor Hart prescribes is a college education for a pedantically educated major in the literary thought he lists. Patently this is a small subset of what any college offers and a small subset of what education is.

The argument may be advanced, although it is a rather dated liberal arts argument, that the technical information taught by a college, whether that technical information be science or engineering, law or medicine, business or home economics, is nothing but training. The argument is relevant here because it raises the issue of the difference between education and training. That difference is simple and complex, training is learning a body of knowledge, and the skills that enable the application of that body in an ordered environment. Education on the other hand is attaining an aspect of cognition, an ability, as it be, to think about certain things. The latter, by definition, transcends order and rises into the realms of creativity and originality.

This is the fundamental problem with Professor Hart’s prescription, that is is training rather than education. In effect, his prescription is to study a particular set of thoughts, an admittedly worthy set, but a particular set nonetheless and hence training rather than education. The nature of this is well expressed by him,

“The main job in getting a college education is to make sure the large essential parts are firmly in place, after which you can build upon them.”

The prescription is clear. And must be just as clearly refuted.

This is not to say that education can be achieved without accumulating some background information. In the case of a college education, that background information comes from studying what has gone before, conveniently arranged in courses. But this in and of itself transcends training only in surpassing the prescriptive. What is important in comprising education is not rote learning but thinking that goes beyond mere facts, however complex those facts may be.

This is not an easy concept. College students are given to heated discussions about what they have been exposed to, and while these are important steps on the way to being educated, they are not sufficient demonstrations of education. What emerges must go beyond the mere manipulation of what has gone before; an aspect of originality and creativity is necessary.

Back in the days when I got to abuse large children with the arcana of mechanics, one of the ways we knew when it was time for a student to graduate, and I am talking graduate students here, was when that student quit coming to class and went off and did new things on his own. At that point the student had moved from taking what we had to teach to learning on his own. And when what he learned were new things not done before, he was educated.

This is what a college education is. It does not matter whether the background information is classical greek philosophy, or comparative nomadic religions, or even technical matters dismissed by the liberal arts as unworthy. What matters is what one builds, not what one has been given.

Simplicity in Action

People are wonderful systems. We seem to continually be discovering more and more natural causes of our depravity and apparent irrationality. Now, courtesy of researchers at New Yawk U we are advised that people panic and overbid on eBay not from an aversion to risk, but due to “fear of losing”. [Link] And while the study is based on a rather embarrassingly SMALL sample population, it rings true at the anecdotal level.

I have to admit that I do use eBay. I collect things. Stuff that FD SCP would declaim as junk were it not for her own collections of sewing instrumentality, cloth, and whatnot. My weakness is old implements of nerdishness: nerd electronic calculators of the ’70′s and early ’80′s, some slide rules of the period just before that, and the occasional piece of lab equipment. She has extracted from me a promise not to purchase anything that generates large scalar or vector potential differences – like van de Graff generators or Tesla coils or multi-ton electromagnets – although things like large solar mirrors or hefty lasers are acceptable so long as I don’t use them to shoo off the pseudo-feral cats and dogs in the neighborhood that the Greater Metropolitan Arab animal police ignore for political reasons. She is also not quite sure about the Foucault pendulum bob I just got, not because of the bob itself but because of the frame I need to build in the yard to make use of the bob. I suspect those plans will join the one for the tennis ball trebuchet that got nixed because of the day care center that would have been within range, a casualty of my reputation as a mower of lawns while doing contour integrals mentally.

I have had to learn to deal with the loss aspect of eBay – there are, after all, a plethora of retired and retiring nerds out there who want to go loudly into the dark – but I have taken the sensations as something to be learned and internalized, rather like one learns how to deal with continual rejection in public shul. But the matter of “fear of losing” may explain the apparently ubiquitous hatred for “snipers” and their increase, as evidence by the healthy growth of businesses who mediate such. Selah.

Then, courtesy of Live Science, which is a bit suspect inherently, as a rehash of a Pew survey, we find that the female of the species is dominant. [Link] Our primary response has to be confirmation, not creativity. But, as with most such human interactions, the whole thing is rather oversimplified. The whole things fails to specify the conditions of decision making, whether it is one member of the partnership exercising power over the other, or one member making a decision that beneifts the other more, as a gesture of altruism or devotion, or even a surrender of decision making on similar basis. Why, there may even be some aspect of rationality involved.

When I got to do management every day, there were some decisions I recognized a manager should not make but allow those managed to make. These were often the important decisions that had the direct potential for doing great damage to the organization. The same applies to marriages. No matter how simplistic the portrayal by the media.

And while we are on being overly simplistic, research at U Western Ontario indicates that some minds can’t handle maths. [Link] Avoiding the obvious comment about the name indicating pork barrelism in Canada, the researchers identify a condition akin to dyslexia called dyscalcula whereby maths are not mentated properly.
The example given is the inability to connect finger counting with numerals. Again, this seems simplistic. I speak now anecdotally. Since I was about ten, I have been aware that I have a maths condition akin to dyslexia although I lacked any term for it other than maths dyslexia. As some people print letters backwards – another good reason for teaching all cursive! – some people get their maths backwards. The most common form of this is transposing a pair of numbers although in some extreme cases the who decimal must be transposed. Such folks often melt down when confronted with transcendental numbers like pi.

I must admit to being one of these people. I have no problems at all with symbolic maths but I am an absolute klutz at arithmetic. Square roots are only mentally realizable if I do them by Taylor expansions. And I leave the basic four of arithmetics to calculators and spreadsheet clients. So again, an iceburg situation yet to be scientifically explored. Go it, guys!

Saturnine Saturday

The economic situation continues to deepen. The only obvious bright side to all this is the somewhat macabre opportunity to watch the gradual, mostly calm slide into destruction. I did pull out an article about the Yankee government seizing Washington Mutual, aka WaMu this Thursday. The obvious pain of the investors aside, the equally obvious question arose of whether this was in any way related to their innane television commercials? Were such a matter of stupidity among bankers, or stupidity among advertising agents. And if the latter, is it a combination of both. Or, has there been any non-stupidity among advertising agents in many years?

I have to admit to growing up in the youth of television. My early years were flavored with Howdy Doody and the Do-Bee, my later years with George Toffel and Science Fiction Theater. In those days, television commercials had a presence. Members of my age cohort are always commenting on some advertising icon or jingle that grabbed some primordial aspect of the human mind. But by acknowledging that we have to ask where are those momory grabbers today?

Yes, in those days we had the horrible commercials of Honest Whosits selling used automobiles or some other sleaze. Now, even the sleaze merchants like the folks who sell annuity compaction or insurance have prettied up and reduced the entirety of advertising to mundanity while the people who should be deliberate and confidence inspiring are overexcited primates – like WaMu.

I also see, courtesy of the United Nations practice of ineffective observation that by end of year, presumably the calendar year of Europe?, that there will be 4M cellular phone users on the planet, closer to two-thirds than a half. [Link] My first thought on hearing this is whether anyone has informed Mr. Gore from Tennessee, the self-appointed wizard of warming and former – thankfully – deputy chief executive of the Yankee government? Surely all of these people talking on telephones all the time has an increasing effect on global warming. And, pray note, all of what comes out of their mouths is carbon dioxide, with a bit of nitrogen and trace gases, including methane and ammonia. Something must be done about this! This run away stoking of the planetary heat budget by phone users must be quenched. Perhaps legislation, after the Yankee congress solves the Well Street problem, to restrict cellular phone use to one hour per person per day? Or perhaps a bounty on the ears of cellular phone users? After all, they are not protected like wolves. Or have wolves been unprotected again by Wall Street?

And while we are again on the matter of idiocy, it appears that not only will people blythly install malware on their computers – at leat the Windows users – to “make the pop ups go away”, it seems that they will gladly sell passwords and other vital personal information for a gift voucher. [Link] And while this study is a trifle suspect since it was conducted by a company that sells security clients, (when did clients cease to be people and become software?) it fits, and brings us to the wonder of why we should trust ourselves with either money or cellular phones. But it does offer a resounding illumination of why we have so much religious fervor. If we will give away our personal wealth for an immediate payment of less than $10, then what will we do for a promise of eternal boredom and slavery?

And lastly, Yves Rossy has become the first human aircraft to fly the English Channel – successfully. [Link] I am not at all sure that whether this is a good or a bad thing. On the one hand I am all in favor of a bit of individualism and proper disrespect for false authority, but I do wonder about such things in an era of rampant consumerism and corporate greed. Can we not expect a proliferation of such commercially. Will the man frame aircraft become the new motor scooter of tomorrow?

On the bright side this will do wonderful things for global climate change by stirring up the otherwise placid pockets of greenhouse gases and reducing our population numbers. Tales of air surfers who run out of fuel and crash to their deaths or are struck by lightening, and in places like Huntsville, the Shining City on the Hill of Nowth Alibam, shot from the sky as terrorists by alert Army guards at beautiful Redstone Arsenal will be so commonplace that not even the blatantly aggrandizing news readers of local television news programs – like the ones from Huntsville itself – will find benefit from reporting them. But it will make our daily lives more difficult with these folks crashing through our roofs and into our paths while driving. After all, it is hard enough to watch in two dimensions without having to do so in three. Although this will likely revitailze Detroit with all the changes in automobiles made necessary, such as those bobble tops they have never been able to sell – mostly because of the greenhouse effect in miniature – and new sensors to avoid falling homo flierensis.

Of course, our wise and proactive government will surely protect us from such. After all, noting like this can be permitted without it being regulated and taxed, and the automobile metaphor is clearly inoperant since the model of the flying test will not work. Or perhaps they will propose an inspector wing walk on these tiny strap-ons? Of course, these may be like cellular phones, unregulated and proliferating faster than antibiotic resistant bacteria in a sterile hospital.

Current (?) Events

Roman military field practice: dissatisfaction among the troops

Gambit 1: Donative

Donative Don”a*tive, n. [L. donativum, fr. donare: cf. F. donatif. See Donate.]
1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. “The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives.” –Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2. (Eccl. Law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3. [1913 Webster]

Gambit 2: Decimation

Decimation Dec`i*ma”tion, n. [L. decimatio: cf. F. d['e]cimation.]
1. A tithing. [Obs.] –State Trials (1630). [1913 Webster]

2. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. –Shak. [1913 Webster]

Food for thought?

Agaist the Tide of Evolution

It is now Friday. My visitations to gym are completed for the week, saturation compelling a period of rest no matter how much I may intellectually desire to continue the regime. So too are the RSS feeds beginning to ebb with the change over from what the work week editor think is news to what the weekend editor has to pad the medium with to obtain adequate coverage to placate customers. Much of the news this week has been conflicted as the economic meltdown staggered into a new chapter, one with the promise of Yankee government salvation at the price of some degree of servitude. Perhaps the program could be called Every Banker Left Behind?

But with this relative staunch I have the opportunity, if not the actuation, of deeper consideration of matters than I have during the grrr brrr of the work week. One of my esteemed colleagues, Magnetic Field Energy, who has astounding patience in abiding my ruminations on the discipline of computer science, sent me an excellent article from ars technica. [Link] The subject of the article is a research performed at North Carolina State U, a name that shrieks academic pork barrel, but nonetheless speaks loudly in terms of the modern view of science as the hairdresser of engineering.

The research deals with a series of experiments whereby computer users busy doing some computing activity were subjected to a series of pop-up window boxes telling them a catastrophic download of malware was about to occur unless they denied the process. Approximately half of the test population, which is admittedly small, did the wrong thing. That is, they were apparently so intent on what they were doing that they did not distinguish the proper response to be taken. It can be argued that this is as much about general computer ignorance as it is about lack of attention, that what matters here is the large instance of counter-survival behavior.

I could also bring forth a study I heard about this week from one of the podcasts I listened at gym about how as one ages the ability to rapidly focus on things degrades, that in effect seniors see too much – or have too broad a range of experience to make reactionary decisions. This however is rather the opposite, about how people become so fixated on what they do that anything impinging on this fixation is a distraction to be swatted. In effect, the distraction itself is more evil than the consequences of swatting it.

I should comment that this is referred to by FD SCP as the “Husband Effect”. She claims that when I am engrossed in something, whether a book, an amusement, or even real work of making squiggles on paper, that my attention span for anything she says or does is measure zero (my term, not her’s, but the information content is closer to my comprehension.) She claims it a victory of her morality that I have not been gutted, spitted and roasted heretofore. I am also forbidden to offer that the same afflicts her when she has one of her sewing machines fired up in a bout of empassioned machine embroidery. Forbidden or not, the head-in-the-task effect is not new, it is a matter of human nature and however much we may decry it as being anti-survival it cannot be such if it exists in such profusion. (Or at least seems so to a physicist sprouting biology ideas.)

No rather than pummel the stupid stolidity of sapiens (unrighteous jealosy, Spiro?) I wish to advance that the problem is that we humans often do things in exactly the opposite fashion as we should, usually for superficial good but ineffectual and unintelligent reasons. The classic example of this is our legal system.

We have legislatures whose job is to merrily enact laws. Almost never do they unenact a law. Instead, they limit the number of constables in the employ of government. These constables are charged with the enforcement of these laws. This primarily means that they are reactive in that their modus operandi, to borrow one of their own classical phrases plagarized from antiquity, is to observe and apprehend people in acts of violation. In exceptional cases they act post hoc by acting on observation of past infraction and attempting, with far less success than the entertainment apparat propagandizes, apprehension after the fact.

Neglecting for the moment that there is a natural limit on the number of constables imposed by the size of the general population, the fact is that the number of constables is at best increasing much more slowly than is the number of laws that they must enforce. Hence, a state exists whereby the more laws enacted the less lawful is society because the constables are forced to selectively ignore more and more laws. Cases in point that I particularly enjoy are those dealing with the operation of motorized velicles: speed limits, the wearing of seat belts, and the use of cellular communication devices.

Every law in place in the Yankee republic, and indeed, much of the planet, in regards to the regulation of these is predicated on a constable observing and apprehending the infraction. In practical effect, these can only be enforced by either random sampling or when some more egregious offense is committed. They are also an example of doing things backwards and wrong.

Consider for the moment that a simple system of transmitters tied to speed limit areas could engage a computerized governor on the automobile engine to limit maximum speed to that limit, that an interlock could be placed in seat belts with a seat occupation sensor to prevent engine operation, and a cellular phone suppressor could be incorporated with engine function to automatically make each law inforced, without benefit of constabulary. That is, if manufacturers are required to build automobiles with tamper-proof hardware of these functions, then the dual foibles of legislatures are fulfilled without further effort, all by inverting the means of implementation.

I could go beat on other folks, other low hanging fruit as it be, but I shall not in the presumption of both the intelligence and impatience of any readers. Instead I shall harrangue a bit on the matter of operating system messages. The problem identified in the North Carolina State U research is largely one of doing things in the opposite manner as how they should be done. In this case, an action will occur unless it is forbidden, that action being the dwnload of malware. This architecture is basically fundamental to MegaHard Windows and to a somewhat lesser extent the Apple OS. It is rather the opposite of the Linux approach that in general is to forbid any action not expressly permitted. In Ubuntu terms this is “sudo” whereby one can perform an action only if one gives one’s password to permit the action.

I should note that neither of these is quite right. One may easily advance pathological examples of how this results in the same kind of disaster in Linux that is so prevalent in Windows. The point however is not that one or the other is right or wrong, but rather that it is possible to make an OS that operates in both fashions so as to assure that “the good is default”.

I would argue that this is what good practice of ergonomics is all about, not just the amelioration of piles. And in a modern world of information riches over poverty, a moral and ethical mandate for all of us.

Gymkhana

Thursday. Named after the Norse deity Thor, the thunder bringer, famed in children’s comic books as a brawny man in pig tails who throws a hammer about and does a lot of “by the name” pseudo-cursing.

My pseudo-cursing began this morning with the realization, reminder actually, the Melvyn, Lord Bragg is still on holiday and I have no new episodes of “In Our Time” to listen to during my Thursday morning gymkhana. Well, a stationary bicycle is sort of a surrogate horse and my skill is definitely tried just staying on while pedaling, not having my feet slip off the pedals because other people persist in removing the pedal straps, and getting up after a bit more than a third of an hour can be a challenge.

So this morning’s listening began with a catch up on the Guardian’s science weekly. This episode dealt with the recent British National Science Fair (or some such) and it was even more of a puff piece than usual. But since they did plumb the newsbite depths of several real (?) scientists and not just other mediaists, I gleaned a few tidbits of nickel knowledge. The most informative of these was that a study of binge drinking revealed, in my terms, that

binge drinkers are bimbos.

By this, I mean that they are imparied in rational thought and sound (?) decision making. I should also quote that the statistics indicate women are more imparied than men. And while it may sound genderist, this may be a partial explaination why the species is so whacked. Or at least often seems so.

The other useful tyhings I learned were that the English have beeter beer than we have in the Yankee republic, probably due to an absence of corporate beer oligarchs, and their student unions, at least the one at Liverpool U, have student pubs. This definitely puts the campuses of the Black Warrior, the Boneyward, and the Tennessee at a grave disadvantage.

Elsewhen, the news feeds are also a bit sparse, perhaps due to all the grrr brrrr ethering about the economy. My previous blot expressed my opinion on this matter, or at least the component that is socially acceptable.

On the positive side there is a PEW poll [Link] that indicates a relative outbreak of rationality among (modern) republicans and independents. Seems that we now have something in excess of 0.5 of the political landscape that thinks religious organizations need to stay out of politics. Boo Yah! Separation of church and state cuts both ways.

But to balance this out, some pseudo-nerd at California Polytechnic State U has used 45 MYA yeast to brew beer. [Link] I suppose this is a neat exercise in reviving old animata, but the reportage on this is down to American standards of tawdry consumerism, which is unusual for the English whose standards are usually a bit higher. Of course, there is an attitude in England that everyone in the Yankee republic is whacked,but especially in California. Think it may be backlash from our inviting them to leave 240ish years ago?

And while we are worried about the inadequacy of beer supply on campus, I see that the Yankee government’s national science foundation has granted the campus of the Boneyard $208M to build a new, fastest supercomputer. [Link] Now I do have to admit that of all my alma materi, the campus of the Boneyard had the best access to beer, and beer is, in some learned and studied opinions, the lubricant and wellspring of science. But in a sense this is not really news. The computer geeks are always working on a new, and thereby implicitly better in some sense, supercomputer. Not that I ever got to see any merit of when I was student. Indeed, and recall this was in the days of mainframes only, the computer resources at the campus of the Boneyard were less available than they were at the campus of the Black Warrior or the campus of the Tennessee. Moral of story: if you can’t get to use it, it’s not very super.

And while on the subject of drinking, there are statistics out that the number of abortions performed each year has declined by a factor of 0.33 between 1974 and 2004. [Link] Why it took four years to crunch the numbers is unexplained. Perhaps due to underfunding of stamp collection science, or just science in general? It is also unclear whether this is the result of some rise in sentient intelligence or suppression of women’s right of choice. The former is what is projected by the analysts. And, as usual, the maths in the article were totally whacked. Once more the mediasts and maybe the researchers have blown what a rate is.

Candidate Debate

O’Bama = Potz