January 2006

Let’s Think About If This Had Happened in DC

Company vying for federal benefit help to provide data on impact of change in the law….

Me and other Democrats go apeshit.So I’m going apeshit here. 

Who the hell doesn’t think about these things.  Even in the case where someone is acting naively–and G-Rod isn’t–there is no excuse for this sort of relationship with lobbyists in putting together proposals.  You don’t go to the company, you go to Michigan or another state that has a program. 

Never mind that Blagojevich promised not to expand gambling four years ago. 

If video poker is the crack cocaine of gambling, keno is the gateway drug. 

Tussle with ArcMap and an Anonymous Reviewer

Some anonymous reviewers tend to think far more highly of their statistical prowess than they should–making it difficult to respond without having to give them a beginning graduate level of stats in a paper. ArcMap was a different matter dealing with understanding the relatively new interface that I hadn’t used until now.

We should be back to normal. Thanks for Bill for reminding me there were other things to do besides fret about a revisions.