Slate's Jordan Ellenberg likens the financial crisis to flipping a coin in a cogent and wry way. Read it.
Also quite good was an article he linked to about a Stanford professor who started as a high school-dropout traveling magician and went on to be a discipline-crossing intellectual matchmaker of a statistician. (He also, apparently, proved that flipping a coin is only ~49% fair.)
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Both good articles. You know, I think we need to find something we disagree on so we can have a real conversation. =)
Either that or we both need more readers to throw into the mix.
Did you see this one?
I'm not a G.K. fan, but he had a few good lines in this one.
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Here's the link.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/09/24/mccain/
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