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The first thing we do, let's kill all the quants (but wait...)

As Shakespeare didn't say.

Nassim Taleb:

My classical metaphor: A Turkey is fed for a 1000 days—every days confirms to its statistical department that the human race cares about its welfare "with increased statistical significance". On the 1001st day, the turkey has a surprise.

Lot of gobblers these days, eh? Read below the fold...

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Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder Update

Been a while since Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been exercised here at Corrente, and there is good news and bad news – of a sort. Read below the fold...

lambert's picture

Silliness

Sending banks letters laced with white powder is so jejune.

Why not, say, send them a letter seeking to open a small account?

Using the enclosed pennies?

"It's all I can spare, but I know you need it!" Read below the fold...

lambert's picture

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 0

About time!

Was it Louis Armstrong who said "If you have to ask, you don't know?"

NOTE Via, indirectly, J-Walk. Read below the fold...

bringiton's picture

Universal Health Care, China Edition

For those interested in the analytical side of universal health care challenges, a fascinating comprehensive series of articles on the current state and future prospects for health care in China is now available online from The Lancet (simple registration required). Read below the fold...

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Philadelphia AFSCME endorses Medicare for All

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Philadelphia Healthcare Union Endorses HR676

hiladelphia, PA The Delegates’ Assembly of District 1199C, Philadelphia Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees (AFSCME), voted unanimously October 8th to endorse HR 676, the national single payer health care bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D MI).

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lambert's picture

How to video your vote

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Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts

Jake Tapper takes a load off IL and puts the blame on MA:

At a business summit on energy, Politickerma.com reports, a prominent supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Mass., made a crack about Sen. John McCain's age.

(via the Make Them Accountable e-mail newsletter) Read below the fold...

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Finally, a bus I'm not under

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Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 10/21/08

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Matt Davies

MEDIA ALERT: Prophet Yahweh Predicts Spaceships Will Appear Oct. 31st in Support of Senator Obama
Prophet Yahweh, Seer of Yahweh, Master UFO Caller says that on October 31, 2008, superhuman black men, from other planets, will appear in their spaceships and hover over his UFO Summoning School for three days as a sign that all Americans should vote for Obama as President.

Obama to travel to see ill grandmother Read below the fold...

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Don't go changing, to try and please me

MoveOn's latest bulk e-mail:

Dear MoveOn member,

Do you want to wake up the day after the election and ask yourself, "If I only did a little bit more?"

I wonder if Obama is a member. This is a good question for him. Perhaps he might consider reaching out to, y'know, progressives. Read below the fold...

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Not Ready for Prime Time -- Way Not Ready for You Tube

Poor little Michelle Bachmann! In spite of direct evidence (as in, her actual comments recorded by a camera during her interview with, of all people, Chris Matthews) to the contrary, The Honorable Michelle wants you to know she "Never called all liberals anti-American."

No, actually. Just, you know, the ones in Congress, and any who associate with Barack Obama. Now, what this tells me about her grasp of reality is... well, she hasn't got one.

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Ouch!

The Howler lets WKJM have it with both barrels:

Hasn’t the public suffered enough from the actual Andrew Sullivan? Defending Bush, avoiding Campaign 2000, Josh makes himself a Serious Person. But you can’t build a progressive politics by respecting the need of people like this to shape-shift the recent past.

Josh wants to be a Serious Person. It’s time for Josh to go.

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