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A Politically Correct Mob Attacks Dr. Phil
I don’t see Dr. Phil’s question about teen sex as offensive.
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The Internet is not a Safe Haven for being Anonymous when Behaving Badly
There is no guarantee that being anonymous online offers a safe haven to be abusive to others. Recently, I was in a scuffle with a flock of anonymous voices on Amazon and as I struggled to disengage from the issue, I was warned that I should apologize to all the anonymous voices hiding behind the […]
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Originally posted on InsideTimsHead: As the election drew near, many political and stats junkies (like me) became fans of Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight, the shrewd political number-cruncher and blogger for the New York Times. His way of aggregating the most reliable presidential polls into megapolls, and factoring in those polls’ historical accuracies, was considered by…