Rumor has it that Dreier was picked because Delay expects to get the Majority Leader post back

Yeah. Because people who lose their posts in disgrace frequently get them back.

t makes hand-wavy gestures in the direction of Marion Barry

If A and B have a positive correlation, that says nothing about whether A causes B, B causes A, or if one or more factors not A or B causes them both.

Yeah, this study does not provide evidence to justify any conclusion other than the fact that there is an association. I would guess that the causation goes the other way: education, prosperity and social stability cause a reduction in traditional conservative religious beliefs. But this study provides no more evidence for my view than for the other view.

While it is formally true that you can't conclude causation from correlation, there are correlations where the possibility of reverse causation or causation by a third variable has been so thoroughly investigated that we have very high confidence in one interpretation of the correlation. There seems to be only one reasonable explanation for the association between smoking and lung cancer, for instance. It's clear that lung cancer in your 40's does not cause you to smoke at age 16, and all of the third variables proposed by the tobacco industry's slimy scientist-whores has been investigated and found to be untrue.

Wow, it sounds like more than just the press smells blood in the water with the current political Reichregime post-Katrina. I would so love to get a new senator for Tennessee.

A link for DX and Billytea: [link]

So Love Among the Ruins.

Question: If a job listing says the salary is $X/year at .75 FTE, they're saying they'll pay you $X for 30 hours/week, not that they'll pay you 0.75*X, right?

correct -- and that overtiem won't happen

Jensen Ackles

When I first heard this name (Dark Angel), I commented that it sounds like a disease. My GF has taken to saying, "I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad" when she is feeling under the weather.

Argh. I have got to get up and get moving, but all I want to do is sleep. Maybe I had too much lunch. OK. Up and at em.

My GF has taken to saying, "I've got the Jensen Ackles real bad" when she is feeling under the weather.

Years ago there was a TV Guide-like magazine that would list Beavis and Butthead as "Beavis Butt," for space reasons. I was so tempted to call in sick one day and say, "Sorry I can't come to work today; I've got a bad case of Beavis Butt."

I don't think that's a condition I'd ever admit to having, tommyrot.