Forgive me for avoiding the post-Thanksgiving shopping bacchanalia. I don’t like crowds, and I certainly don’t like battling demon-eyed hordes for the right to save $50 on an Olympus-size television
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Believe what you read? It might just cost you
I can’t resist poking fun at signs like this. The absurdity speaks for itself. Nonetheless, when I run across this type of tag, I can never tell whether the store
Continue readingWhy a single pie will never equal 391%
Apathy rules most elections. Even a “high turnout” election barely draws a quorum in many places. So what’s the answer? Put all of a county’s voting precincts into a single
Continue readingNumber of homes grows 13-fold! Or not.
Let’s think this through: In a story about census data, one paragraph says 13,535 homes equals 5.7 percent of the total in Lawrence. The next paragraph says 13,000 homes equals74
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