Dowbrigade

For
years the Dowbrigade has been using the Harper’s Index with his advanced
ESL students.  The Harpers Index is a monthly list of surprising
or unexpected or counterintuitive statistical
[...]

Cool little quiz over at quizilla.com, called "What kind of post-modernist
are you?" I’m not really sure what a post-modernist is, except that I
think it has something to do with deconstructionism.
Thanks to Ryan
Overbey for the [...]

Gadzooks! Jay McCarthy has discovered Ayn Rand! Also notable as a sweet application of outline-based, category-rich blogging.
From Make Out City

The holiday spirit was dampened and Christmas dinner ruined at Buckingham Palace by a combination dog fignt / cat fight involving The Queen of England, her daughter Princess Anne, a bull terrier named Dottie and the Queen’s favorite Corgi, name of Pharos. Note the gratuitous use of Latin. American papers should do more of [...]

As
the top prize gets closer and closer, The Remaking of Howard Dean is
reaching a fevered pitch. What with Michael Jackson embracing the Nation
of Islam, hearing that Dean is embracing his Christian [...]