“Officials at a Massachusetts college are investigating after students said a female soccer player attended an on-campus Halloween party with darkened skin to portray a character from the movie “White Chicks.” The Sun Chronicle reports a photo taken Friday shows the woman with her skin darkened by makeup, a drawn-on goatee and a bald cap.” […]
Category: Current Events
Patriotism and Bad PR
The national anthem kneeling crisis escalated further Sunday when Vice President Mike Pence demonstrated his viewpoint by walking out on an Indianapolis Colts home game. There are claims of staging, theatrics and planned performances showing up all over the internet. I don’t know, but I will say that when I was working for the executive […]
Rallies, Demonstrations and Marches
America Looks a Lot Like the ‘60s and ’70s Again What is the old saying? “Everybody loves a parade.†While parades may celebrate the circus coming to town, or even a Super Bowl win, there are now a lot of people on the streets of our nation’s cities doing something completely different. Recent rallies and […]
Fake news: How disinformation works
Ask the Russians or any other country Fake news. Is that like true facts? Some people will argue that using “fake†with “news†is redundant. Others, thankfully, still believe that news gathering is a tried-and-true, fact-based profession. But, alas, here comes the internet, where anyone can dump anything onto a website, blog, message board, Facebook […]
How Can So Many Experts Be So Wrong?
If you were a betting person, you could have placed a safe bet on Hillary to beat Donald. Well, that is if you believe the oddsmakers. You would have been wrong, but not alone. Almost everybody was wrong, and that’s alarming. This isn’t a blog about politics. This is a blog about quantitative data and […]