I saw a very impressive man on TV today, a black ex-Navy guy. He said: “When I wear my uniform, I get thanked for my service. And when I wear a suit, I get treated well. But catch me with three days worth of beard wearing a hoodie, and suddenly everyone’s afraid of me”. Let…
A few years ago, I took a look at the most recent data on police killings in a post entitled When Arrests Go Bad. I found out a most curious thing. Now, before I get to what I found, let me say that most of what I’ll put forward here in this post are facts. Not…
I got to thinking about the Kavanaugh case and the #IBelieveSurvivors movement. As folks who follow my work know, I’m a data junkie. I don’t believe anecdotes. I want evidence, facts, data. I agree totally with what Robert Heinlein said: “What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun…
Well, since guns have been in the news a lot lately, I thought I’d discuss my experience with guns. I grew up on a cattle ranch, and just about every boy I knew got a deer rifle when they were twelve years old. We were all taught gun safety by fathers, uncles, and in my…
OK, here’s the text to translate … Source #1 was approached by an identified U.S. Person, who indicated to Source #1 that a U.S.-based law firm had hired the identified U.S. Person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1’s ties to Russia. (The identified U.S. Person and Source #1 have a long-standing business relationship.) The identified…
As many folks know, inter alia I’m a numbers guy. I figure if I can measure something, I can understand it. In that regard, I got to thinking about “hate crimes”. These are crimes where the motivation is deemed to be hatred of some group. The FBI has statistics on hate crimes against various racial,…
Here, in alphabetical order, is a short list of objects. What do they have in common? ax baseball bat baton bayonet brick broken glass car chain saw crossbow crowbar flashlight garden tool gun hammer hand torch hatchet knife machete meat cleaver metal pipe motorcycle oar pick-axe piece of wood pitchfork pole rock scissors screwdriver shovel…
For a little light reading, I was browsing through the new FBI crime statistics for 2016. There’s a variety of interesting stuff in there which I may write about some day, but along the way, I noticed a curious thing. They give two different numbers for how many people were arrested for the crime of rape.…
Sometimes I think I’ve wandered through a wormhole into a strange parallel universe. Once again I find myself skating on the underside of the ice. Here’s the backstory. For months, ever since the election, the left-wing fascists of Antifa and others have been rioting in the streets, beating people up, breaking windows, setting fire to…
I got to thinking about the issues of race regarding the recent tragic police shootings, both the shootings of police and the shootings by police. The best data is from the Washington Post, which has a detailed site listing all of the people killed by police, which begins in 2015 and goes to the present.…
