Sense and Nonsense

Grading Papers: The Circles of Hell

Or "The Stages of Grading," according to Debby Thompson.  Sublime.

(UPDATE:  But maybe there is help for weary teachers on the distant horizon, just as I prepare to hang up my cleats.)

Guide to Single Malt Whiskies

This is a handy guide to Scottish single malt whiskies, plotted on a grid with two sets of variables. Horizontally, from light (left) to rich (right); and vertically, from delicate (bottom) to smoky (top). 

Source

Cats are the Enemy

All you people who oppose wind turbines because they harm birds, pay attention: CATS are the true enemy of birds.  See here.

Contemporary Political Science

There are only a dozen or two sensible political scientists left in the United States.  I know some of them. As for the rest: here's a video cartoon that gets to the truth about them. 

 

(h/t to L.G., one of the sensible ones)

So Screwed Up

Wonkette is "just saying . . ."

And they're right.  Americans' sense of relative risks and harms is so screwed up. 

h/t to JFT.

Tolerance for Hogwash

Oh, yes.