Sansom watch, December 27 edition
Recent items in the news on Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his position at Northwest Florida State College: Yesterday, the Lakeland Ledger published Sansom’s handsome pension, which calculated how much his state pension would rise from his new position at NWFSC Vice President if he stayed at least 5 years: $4,236 more a month […]
(Effect) size matters
Nathan Yau is not Edward Tufte. Yau is a doctoral student in statistics. Tufte is a Yale professor emeritus. Yau’s list of his 5 best data visualization projects of 2008 has a common missing element (from four of the listed projects) that E.T. would pull tufts of hair out over: the images have no quantification. […]
The mixed value of GEDs
This morning in the St Pete Times, Ron Matus has a short article discussing the mixed reception GED recipients know they’ll have in the world. Some earning GEDs have already faced life’s curveballs interviews several adults who have received or are studying for their GED. According to one, Samantha Fenwick knows all about the stigma. […]
Comment weirdness
For some reason, the older entries had the comment-permission wiped out with the upgrade. The comments still exist on Haloscan, but they’re just not showing up here! I’m sure there’s an easy trick to fix that, but it may take a while. Update: Problem fixed. Kludgy templates…
Marbury v. Madison and the Toussie pardon?
The attempted revocation of Isaac Toussie’s pardon may not be within the scope of presidential powers, and former White House pardon attorney Margaret Love has been quoted in several places expressing skepticism. The White House statement yesterday said in part, Yesterday the President forwarded to the Pardon Attorney a Master Warrant of Clemency including 19 […]