May 1, 2008

Many people, especially the math-avoidant, are likely to look askance at the title of John Allen Paulos’ “Mathematics and Humor.” Mathematics and humor! What could they possibly have in common?
Quite a bit, as Paulos points out in this unusual, educational, and (yes) enjoyable volume. “Both mathematics and humor are forms of intellectual play,” [...]

April 26, 2008

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Reviewed by Denise Noe
John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor, is understandably dismayed at the widespread ignorance of his subject, an ignorance which he calls “innumeracy.” He is also dismayed by the fact that so many of his fellow Americans are math-anxious and math-averse and that [...]

April 10, 2008

“Brenda” told me she did not want to put her baby into day care after the child was born so she would put plans for a regular job on hold and continue as a professional dominatrix after the little one came into the world. However, she definitely wanted to protect her baby from being exposed [...]

March 14, 2008

March 17 is a very special day, honoring the richness of Irish history, traditions, and customs. It is especially appropriate that, of those groups outside of the Emerald Isle itself, we in the United States of America should pay special attention to St. Patrick�s Day. Over nine times as many people of at least partially [...]

March 13, 2008

As Silda Spitzer fends off “so you’re almost single now?” phone calls from Bill Clinton, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is doing some pro-bono work for Silda’s husband, soon-to-be ex NY Governor Eliot Spitzer.
In today’s piece in the Wall Street Journal, Dershowitz does so much sleight-of-hand that you almost forget what brought about the discussion [...]

The lamestream media told you:
“U.S. missile takes out crippled satellite”
“Hit on orbiter probably destroyed toxic-fuel tank”
“Confirmation that the fuel tank has been fragmented should be available within 24 hours,” the Pentagon said.
This front page news coverage was brought to you in an unbylined article from the Associated Press.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Obeying their [...]

March 4, 2008

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, claims that Moses was high on psychedelic drugs on Mount Sinai when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments.
Let’s see� Honor your father and mother, don’t steal, don’t kill, don’t covet your neighbor’s wife, don’t commit adultery, remember the Sabbath and keep [...]

March 2, 2008

The recent stories about Hillary Clinton�s campaign spending money like a lonely male Lotto winner at a strip club have given us a new look at the woman who would be President. We already suspected that she wasn�t ready to run the country, but the ways she�s spent campaign cash have pretty much solidified it. [...]

February 26, 2008

SATIRE
9. He defecates hope, urinates dreams, perspires justice, expectorates butterfly kisses, and cries tears of racial equality.
8. While his home planet was in the throes of destruction as the result of a thermonuclear chain reaction deep within its unstable uranium core, Obama (nee Bar-El) managed to escape and make it to Earth where he is [...]

February 18, 2008

As any faithful reader of old Superman comics will tell you, one of Superman�s nemeses was Bizarro. For those of you who have lives, Bizarro was a backwards version of Superman from a planet known as Bizarro World. On Bizarro World, everything was the opposite of the way things were on Earth. Up was down, [...]