Tomorrow, my wife and I are headed for our annual round of family Christmas visits in Texas. So this will likely be my last post of 2009. In that spirit I hope that you all had a wonderful year, that you all have a Merry Christmas (whether you celebrate it or not, I [...]

Here’s a couple lessons from statistics that we would all do well to remember:
1) Anything that can happen, will happen, if given enough opportunity.
2) Most systems will, on average, converge to their “true” values if given long enough.
So, for instance, let’s think about climate change.

A few commonsense lessons that we seem to be forgetting these days, at least in lieu of the Tiger Woods situation:

A commentator on this site Blue Foot, just posed a really interesting question that I thought I would take a shot at answering. But the answer got long, so I thought I’d put it in a post instead of a comment. The question was:
“So what’s the path to small government?”
So I’m pretty liberal [...]