Does McCarver get paid by the word?

With deductions for anything that we haven't heard 1,000 times or more AND that fits the situation?

...statistics. Yes, I know, Statistics is one of the duller topics... but I wonder about anyone doing "research circa 1987 at the UC Berkeley Anthropology department," who can then proceed to make a statement about "...two percent out of every 1000 babies." Did she mean 2 per 1,000? 20? 0.02? All three are possible interpretations of this phrase.

At minimum, the two ratios as juxtaposed are confusing. The construction calls into question at least the scientific credibility of any statement associated with it, and potentially whatever scientific bona fides Ms. Lloyd herself may claim.

This is all something of a shame because I agree with and support the larger point being made in the essay. But such sloppiness in presenting the objective facts supporting that point only enables the reactionary critics.

The mission of the Templeton Prize is to choose verrrry selectively, out of all available science, that which best suits the worldview of Bobble-believin' Christ-yuns. Since Paul Davies has accepted this tainted (at best) lucre, tell me again why he has any credibility as a scientist, especially when it comes to larger explanations for What It All Means? Obviously for such as Davies, What It All Means is summed up nicely in the Apostles' Creed.

I'll find my explanations elsewhere, thank you, among those who do not come to the table with as many preconcieved notions based firmly in the mythology of Bronze-Age goatherds.

As the story goes, anyway, Rizzuto was handed the script for his part of this Meat Loaf track and asked to do the read. They never told him the context of it in the song. He did the read (beautifully!) and signed the usual release. When he finally heard the finished song, he was FURIOUS! He never intended to take part in anything about teenage sex. (Never mind the fact that the song is really kind of a sad and cautionary tale.)

In later years, though, he mellowed about it. Residuals from a Top 40 hit will do that. He was quoted, "Holy cow! I made a lotta money from that song!"

A true American original. The world is a little bit less fun without Scooter.

King! That's not like you.

Who TF *is* that in his tattoo? That picture is not recognizable to me. Or is it just "generic bad pol?"

Um, Favre's most recent game, where he threw all those INTs, was played on Thursday, not Sunday.

And teams may or may not *fare* better... but I am not aware of a verb, "fair".

--K

Please stay away from Obama and Edwards....

For the good of the nation!

Seriously, Salon, do they have film of you snowboarding with Satan?

Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop!

Please note that many of the people who hate this strip AND care enough to write these whiny letters are Premium subscribers. That is, Revenue Stream. I just counted, and 43% of all the letters back to Week 1 are signed by Premium subscribers. And that's assuming that NOT ONE of the anonymous letters hating on this trash is from anybody who sends annual money to Salon.

Now, my fellow subscribers, check me on this: but of the letters I looked through I do not remember seeing ONE that was both signed by one of us and favorable about this strip. We know there are shills but of course they see no need to pay up before inserting shillage....

My sub is up in February. Do the right thing, Salon.

Thank you, thank you!

I am a Giants fan but I was kinda rooting for the Pats on Saturday. Why (besides the loss not hurting my G-men)? To get those damn '72 Dolphins to STFU!

Or maybe, just maybe, the scribblers stop steno-ing everything that plops out of their mouths, and then they can be that tree falling in a forest, and really, who CARES if it makes a sound?

@JakobA: Why not try something new and use a house account for the shilling so you look like an actual paying customer? And the fact that the Big News is that SOMETHING (however implausible and hackneyed) actually HAPPENED this week -- that's all we need to know, isn't it?

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My premium subscription is up in a couple of weeks. Slate or Harper's would be happy to replace Salon on my third Firefox tab, and for the cash I can even get the dead-tree edition of the latter.

Ah well, I'll miss King Kaufman and Carol Lay. Maybe I'll occasionally click through the blank white boxes (all Adblock Plus leaves me of the ads) to look at them.

I like all your picks but the Giants fan between my keyboard and my chair hopes you're wrong about one.

So the Giants hate the 'jets?' Nice. And when did "Schilling" become a verb meaning to stitch back on detached parts of the anatomy? You gotta cite for that, or you hoping to be the cite?

That in four more months, we'll all see the point that they FINALLY make and go, Oh! Well! Now we get it!

Nah. It's just sh!t.

Can't wait for that renewal email from Salon, tho. My reply will curl their nose-hair. I'll cross post it here, of course... no doubt this crapfest will still be going.

"posible"? Did I really write that? That'll teach me to post at oh-dark-thirty.

Leonard Pinth-Garnell, but... yeah!

...is for each of us to send an email to the contact address(es) on the home page of every advertiser whose brand is besmirched by appearing on the same page as this $hit, and tell THEM what's going on. By the time they've each received, oh, two dozen emails... they'll be "concerned."