Misdirection

This article suggests that Republicans who watch Fox News are led to hold more conservative viewpoints than those who do not, but an equally (if not more) compelling explanation is that Republicans who are more conservative than average are more likely to watch Fox News.

Speed is 20 years old this year.  How about an homage?

Dockers is apparently engaging in some misdirection on this one, but at least they're trying?

This is an interesting study about allergies, but mostly I just thought the animals were cute.

The NCAA is in court trying to prevent players from getting paid.  The plaintiffs randomly invoked Little League.

Responses:

1. Bacon + science = good times.  Wait, whom are we kidding... bacon = good times.

2. Some of those were sadly funny, but I feel bad for the people who wasted all that time and ended up with hot garbage.

3. I want to make pig candy (i.e. candied bacon).  Those are some decent ideas for the office, though.

4. Not sure what to make of this story.  That your parents and upbringing play a huge role in your ultimate position as an adult seems obvious (and not necessarily in conflict with the Horatio Alger idea).  It's obviously sad that so many poor black kids struggle to get out of poverty, but this study seems less about being born poor and more about being born poor in a shitty neighborhood with no sense of community outside the context of illegal activity.  I wonder what happens when you look at parents who make an effort to care about their kids' education.

5. Koalas are not part of the bear family, but we are friends, even though they are tree-hugging hippies.

6. Have you used it?  Seems interesting.

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6. I get that it's easy to avoid (in the same way that DUI's are easy to avoid since the NFL pays car services to pick players up), but it's different because 1) many of these drugs aren't themselves PEDs but rather used in conjuction with PEDs, 2) the way he went about it would be perfectly reasonable but for the (in my view) unreasonable policy, and 3) they could always have the system they have now, except make the appeals process worth something, i.e. allow his doctor to explain the screw-up.  I am actually fine with the burden being on the player to prove he was not cheating given that the player has all the information about what he's taking, but in this case, the player proved exactly that and the NFL's response was, "We don't actually care to use our brains to analyze this situation."  That seems wrong to me.

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