Don’t forget, Linoge’s HAVA fundraiser is still going! Get your donations in before 2359 EDT on 31MAR13 for the drawing!
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HAVA Fundraiser Reminder
Posted by Jake on March 21, 2013
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/hava-fundraiser-reminder/
Honored American Veterans Afield fundraiser
Over at Walls of the City, Linoge is doing another fundraiser for a worthy cause, with some nice prizes. Go check it out!
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Posted by Jake on February 15, 2013
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/honored-american-veterans-afield-fundraiser/
Legislative Update: US House gun bills
No Lawyers – Only Guns and Money has a good summary. Go check it out, and then start calling your legislators.
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(h/t SayUncle)
Posted by Jake on January 4, 2013
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/legislative-update-us-house-gun-bills/
Help a fellow blogger out
I’ve been out of town and busy since about this time last week, and my internet time has been minimal. So while I’ve been aware of it, I haven’t been able to post about Tam’s recent skin-cancer diagnosis. Fortunately (for given values of ‘fortunate’), it’s “just” basal cell carcinoma, which is, as Tam so eloquently puts it, “cancer’s farm team”.
Still, cancer sucks, whether it’s the farm team or the major league. The worst of it, though, is that Tam is (as she puts it) “self-unemployed”, and unfortunately also uninsured.
Cancer treatments are expensive.
Facial surgery is expensive.
Follow-up care for both of those is expensive.
Cancer can leave you financially hurting even with insurance. Without insurance, it can be a nightmare. Tam could use a little help (or probably a lot of help, really).
Fortunately, Tam has us. The bloggers and followers that rely on her for our daily dose of grade-A snark. Right now, there are several raffles, auctions, and other fundraisers going on to help her out JayG has a good round-up here, and Tam has a good link-farm, too. Plus, she has a tip jar on her own site that we can use for donations.
I have to wait until payday, but I will be hitting that tip jar. Let’s all chip in and give a good woman a hand, shall we?
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Posted by Jake on November 13, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/help-a-fellow-blogger-out/
It’s that time again… Graphics Matter!
Linoge has Year Four of his Graphics Matter series up. And there’s a big surprise!
Anywise, as we can clearly see, firearm ownership took a marked jump around the 2008-2009 range (I wonder why?), while the total number crimes committed with firearms (CCwF) have been decreasing at various rates since 2007 and the rate of CCwF has been decreasing since 2006. Why, it is almost like the number of firearms in public circulation has absolutely no bearing on the number of crimes committed with those firearms!
Lo and behold, it does not. If we solve for the Pearson correlation coefficient for the raw numbers of firearms in circulation against the raw numbers of crimes committed with firearms, you find that ‘r’-value to be -0.45541 – a weak, negative correlation.
Then if we do what all good statisticians should do and consider rates instead of raw numbers, the rate of firearm ownership correlates to the rate of CCwF with a coefficient of -0.59906 – an arguably strong, negative correlation.
Well, okay. If you’ve been paying any attention at all, it’s not really a surprise. We see, yet again, that the anti-Rights cultists’ claims that “more guns = more crime” simply doesn’t hold up to even a simple reasoned analysis once actual evidence is taken into account.
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Posted by Jake on November 1, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/its-that-time-again-graphics-matter/
Desktop meme
Since my iPod rarely gets used any more beyond the occasional trip to my parents, I didn’t bother with the recent meme. Sebastian came up with a new one, though: “What’s on your desktop?” that does work for me.
That’s a pretty cool picture of Captain-General Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto from the manga/anime series Bleach. Mainly because I thought it looked cool and I like the series.
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Posted by Jake on September 22, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/desktop-meme/
Linoge’s “Graphics Matter” series – Year 4
Linoge has this year’s “Graphics Matter” post up. This year there’s an interesting trend visible in the newly available data for 2009.
And yet again he shows us that the hypothesis that more firearms result in more firearm-related deaths is historically and demonstrably false. It’s a moderately long read, as always, but – again, as always – it’s worth the time. Go check it out!
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Posted by Jake on June 14, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/linoges-graphics-matter-series-year-4/
Awesome shiny! Larry Correia is in G.I. Joe!
Posted by Jake on April 5, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/awesome-shiny-larry-correia-is-in-g-i-joe/
Oddball joins the club!
It seems congratulations are in order for Oddball – he just got his concealed carry permit.
Congratulations! May you never actually need to use your gun.
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Posted by Jake on April 4, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/oddball-joins-the-club/
What are they thinking?
Blogger just keeps getting worse. I moved to WordPress because Blogger didn’t have a built-in mobile format, but lately every time they change something it makes me glad I switched when I did. Their new Captcha is absolutely horrible to the point of driving commenters away (one person noted that it took him six attempts to get it right). The new comment page format is hard to follow – the separation between comments is so minimal that comments by people without avatars blend together with other comments – and the far left alignment (instead of the previous centering) is irritating on widescreen monitors.
The latest change is the most irritating, though. It seems that they’ve taken away the option for people to follow comment threads by email, an option I use consistently to follow the discussion on posts I’ve commented on or am interested in.
It’s almost like they’re trying to drive people away. Get a clue, Blogger!
Update: I’m not the only one frustrated by these changes, it seems. Hopefully, they’ll listen to their users.
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Posted by Jake on February 29, 2012
http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/what-are-they-thinking/
