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Go here to see a list of winners. My favorite was the Psychology winner -- a study entitled "Gorillas in Our Midst." For demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a man in a gorilla suit. The site has links to the video […]

Watching the debate several hours after it actually occurs is a great advantage -- I can copy and paste what I want from a transcript, rather then pausing and typing it myself. The big problem with this debate format is that the moderator really can't challenge the answers of either candidate, and with the rule […]

I'll be at work tonight as the debate occurs, so there will be no live-blogging of it here. For those of you who are early risers on the East Coast or insomniacs on the West, I'll have some comments in the wee hours of the morning. Some thoughts on what to look for: For President […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports today that an Iraqi arrested in Iraq had on him a computer disk containing a report on crisis planning for U.S. school districts -- including San Diego Unified. The man was described as an Iraqi national with connections to terrorism and the insurgency that is fighting U.S. forces in Iraq. […]

The New York Times editorial board continues its series entitled "Making Votes Count" -- it will surely be the Times entry for the Pulitzers next time around. The Times sticks to the Democrat Party line that values more votes being cast over valid votes being cast -- voter fraud is not a concern. [O]ne of […]

John Kerry has mostly avoided talking to real journalists over the past month. Sorry, as John Stewart himself acknowledges, his is a fake news show, thus making him a fake journalist. Usually candidates can count on softball interviews from the likes of Stewart, Leno and Letterman, and even occasion the morning news shows on the […]

If you're an avid reader of the blogosphere you've already read about CBS News' latest stupidity. On Tuesday night's broadcast, the network ran a story about Bush administration plans to bring back the draft and based their reporting on ... nothing. In a story that was a textbook example of shoddy and biased reporting, CBS […]

Lt. Smash will be on KPBS's "These Days" show this morning at 10 a.m. talking about blogs and politics. I know this because I spent about 35 minutes on the phone Wednesday afternoon talking to one of the show's producers -- and was then told they didn't want me. If I had feelings, they'd be […]

On the same day the New York Times editorial board decries global warming and the Bush administration's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol -- again. For an editorial board that has decried the "meddling" of the Bush administration in "scientific" reports, it's interesting that the Times is ignoring a little bit of politicking […]

Economist Thomas Sowell has a couple of pieces on Social (In)Security here and here. How did Social Security get into its present mess in the first place? Because politicians made it the "risky scheme" that they now claim privatization would be. The same political expediency which caused Social Security to be called "insurance," in order […]