Image from Am. Digest.
Similar to Mark Twain's "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still trying to get its pants on."
A taxicab's day - This visualization displays the data for one random NYC yellow taxi on a single day in 2013. See where it operated, how much money it made, and how busy it was over 24 hours.
Totten: Welcome to Vietnam
The Overblown Stigma of Genital Herpes
"Overblown"?
Here's what the numbers on your credit card really mean
Sipp: I've written from time to time about homeschooling, but no one pays any attention to anything I say about it:
There is no new math, or old math for that matter. No matter how many other approaches other people try, how much mewling is transcribed on the Internet about socialization, or how many tennis balls you put on the bottoms of the legs of your kindergarten chairs, it's all wrong and it doesn't work. Like a volume knob that makes the radio louder when you turn it clockwise, and diminishes the sound when it's turned counter-clockwise until it clicks off, the design was perfect on the first attempt and cannot be improved. Every variation after that will be worse. People who want to break new ground without doing anything constructive will change the way that knob operates to become notable for the novelty, but it's always worse.
Michelle Nunn: Favorable Media Bias Part of Democrat Campaign Strategy
Duh.
Obama Administration Suing Pa. State Police Over Physical Fitness Tests
De Blasio’s Policing Dilemma - The Gotham mayor must decide whether to listen to his police commissioner or the New York Times.
Boudreaux:
Healthy skepticism – or realism – about the nature of politics is foreign to many advocates of government intervention. These advocates believe in miracles - and, in addition, they too often reason inconsistently about the play of incentives and the incompleteness of information across different institutional settings.
Italian journalist leaves Gaza, tells truth once free from Hamas retaliation
Italy Suddenly Gets Ugly for Jews