Here's the kinda weird shit that gets added to a bill when Congress plays the - okay, everybody add one thing and then we'll pass the bill - game (mental health parity for insurance companies also got added, so a little something to cheer for I suppose ( Read more... )

hey stats geeks, if you have a dichotomous DV and a series of continuous IVs you need to use a logistic regression model right? If you have a mix of continuous and ordinal IVs you need to run some sort of non-parametric logistic regression, right?

really I have other things I should be doing.

supreme court cases i can name off the top of my head (may not be totally accurate ( Read more... )

HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING 'YES' ON BAILOUT RECEIVED 54% MORE MONEY FROM BANKS AND SECURITIES FIRMS THAN MEMBERS VOTING 'NO'  -- This wasn't the Dems capitulating, it was the Dems voting their way their masters told them to. (House Democrats split their votes on this bill, 140 voting Yes and 95 voting No. Democrats voting Yes received an average of $212, ( Read more... )

QOTD from David Sirota ( Read more... )

LOL. www.house.gov has been down all afternoon. Get a better server guvmint!

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ( Read more... )

( then come live with us! )

( oh mr. stewart, we love you so )

You know that scam where some dudes pull up with a van full of piece of crap speakers that have the fidelity of a moose fart and try to convince you that they are scamming their boss and unloading these super-primo speakers for really cheap, but you gotta buy em like right now see and the more you try to calmly decline, the more they try to ( Read more... )