Reality-Based Engineering

Monday, September 08, 2008

Only To Hang All These Media Creds

Otherwise, stop hyperventalating

Labels: media

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Another Good Understanding of Bogus Unemployment Statistic

Labels: media, The Big Picture, unemployment, USA

Friday, December 07, 2007

First Time? NBC Rejects Conservative Ad

I know they've rejected similar style ads from perceived lefty organizations (I"ll dig up links later) like that Congregational denomination that had those tolerance ads after the 2004 election...so this may be a first for NBC in blocking an ad from a conservative org. At least it's the first time that it's been discussed publically. I tend to believe that NBC (and others) have this policy simply cause lawyers tell them to so as not to get into any dustups. Sort of like HRC's prez campaign thus far.

Labels: 2004 Elections, 2008 Elections, Democrats, General Electric, Hillary Clinton, media, NBC, press, religion, RNC

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

2008 Presidential Debates

The sites and dates have been selected, but nothing yet on the moderators...

Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, colleges, debate, debates.org, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, media, press, USA

Sunday, October 21, 2007

PBS - Cheney's Law

This guy is just scarry scarry scarry...even conservative republicans in the justice department thought he went way too far...wifey and I watched this for about 20 minutes of this at the point of the infamous visit to Ashcroft's hospital bed...we just had to turn it off since it's just too scarry to watch what actually happened in this country...

Labels: blog, Cheney, crime, crooksandliars.com, dubya, Frontline, media, PBS, press, RNC, Spending, USA

Friday, October 12, 2007

Wiki-ish Lookup for Talking Heads In The News

I was listenening to our new XM radio in the car on the way home last night, and they have a great new channel on XM130 - POTUS08. Everything about the presidential election, which is cool in general.

They had a segment that segued with a discussion of Hillary talking about some sort of relief for college students since the rate of college tuition hikes was 2-3x that of inflation over the past...some time, I missed the interval. ANYWAY, they had two people on to discuss the rediculous college price hikes...the first guy was Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University and fronting for some group called The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (they blog here) He stated that the relief should go directly to students...in the manner of slashing subsidies to post-secondary schools, giving it all to the students and then have the colleges compete to pick up these students...it sounded a little fishy but I did give it enough thought to write down his name while in the restaraunt parking lot picking up chinese food for dinner...then the second guest was Pedro de la Torr, who identifed himself as being with a group called CampusProgress, affiliated with the Center for American Progress. CfAP is a well-known pregressive group, but they indentified it so I sort of knew what was coming. But I googled Vedder's name just now, and this is what I found. He belongs to well-known right-wing thinktanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the National Taxpayers Union. And, he supports pro-tobacco propaganda. Interesting. But, the whole point is the website that had it: sourcewatch.org.

Labels: 2008 Elections, blog, colleges, Democrats, education, macroeconomics, media, RNC, sourcewatch.org

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Ann Coulter: Anti-Semite

Walter Sobchak and The Dude would not like her...three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax...of course, maybe she's just a nihilist and believes in nothing...

Labels: Ann Coulter, Arab, CNBC, General Electric, Israel, Jewish, media, Muslim, Palestime, religion, RNC, The Big Lebowski

Home Grown Green Philosophy: Simple Cleaners

Like your grandmother used to use - vinegar, water, baking soda, to go along with the newer formulated cleaners that use citrus (probably d-limonene) as their basis.

Labels: chemicals, climate change, economy, effluvia, engineering, environment, fluid properties, global warming, Masachusetts, media, RBE

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Bushie Wants Retroactive Immunity for Telcos That Helped In Domestic Spying

And he says this with a straight face - even if he believes that this illegal warrantless domestic spying is perfectly legal he thinks they need to get immunity? Huh?

Labels: Cheney, CIA, crime, dubya, FBI, Homeland Security, media, USA

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

WaPo: Federal RoboBugs

Scarry stuff...

Labels: Cheney, CIA, computer, dubya, engineering, FBI, Homeland Security, media, Patriot Act, peace, USA, WaPo

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Another Good Explanation That Enemployment Rate Is Bogus Number

The Big Picture is quickly becoming my fav economics blog. As I've always stated that the unemployment rate is completely bogus, since the denominator is a melange of stats regarding those that WANT to look for jobs + those employed.

Since the labor pool has shrunk, the percentage of course has gone down.

Labels: economy, macroeconomics, media, RBE, The Big Picture, unemployment