An example of when hard data doesn't fit the paradigm

 This article about a professor at Harvard that had received a severe backlash when his study to determine if racial bias exists in regards to police shootings showed no such bias even exists.

Even after he redid the study with new assistants to formulate and tabulate the data, he still achieved the same end result. 

I would like to see the actual study and review the methodology used for manipulating the data, and see if it holds to generally accepted practices used for similar studies.  The fact that his peers warned him not to publish does make me wonder.  At least he was forthcoming in publishing the results and not trying to bury it somewhere.

Yet another example of the mob not liking reality, it seems...

Help requested from a blogger

 I've been following Big Country Expat's blog for awhile, and while he is definitely on the right side politically, I do respect his views on most things we have in common, plus he is a good source for some twisted humor when most needed.  And working in EMS, some days it is definitely called for.

He's had some issues come up with custody of his grandaughter Adrianna, which I have noted previously, and I've helped out with what I can financially.

Now he's got another unfortunate matter to deal with.  His wonderful lovely and bosomy wife Gretchen has been diagnosed with breast cancer, and they don't want to deal with the nasty route of regular medical treatment like chemo and such (and I can empathize with them on that, seeing my maternal grandmother going through that when I was a teen), and so they are pursuing non-traditional but purportedly effective therapies to fight this.

Obviously they need some major moolah for this latest fight.

He has set up another fundraiser on GiveSendGo named Help the Hair Diva! to help get the money together for Gretchen's care.  (Personally I would have called it 'Save da Girls!', as I commented on his blog, referencing Gretchen's lovely figure, but that is his prerogative)

Once I get paid tomorrow I'm kicking some money their way what I can spare, and I hope others can do that as well.

OK where do I start?

 Lots of places:

1. Lost my oldest brother and his wife to not so certain causes.  We haven't heard anything from them in awhile, so contacted the sheriff's office, they go do a welfare check, and find them deceased...and they've been that way about 4-6 weeks at least from the condition of the bodies.  No clear cause as to why, no obvious signs of foul play, so likely fentanyl OD is the cause.  My brother and his wife were messed up with that stuff for a time, and maybe it came back to hit them once too many.

2.  Since we haven't had a chance to go down to my dad's place to check on things after the sheriff and coroner had been there (due to illnesses and other issues)  my sister, my good buddy, and I went down there couple of weeks ago to check things out and make sure things are secured.

They weren't.

It looked like a tornado hit.  Lot of stuff missing.  Still hurts to discuss...so will get back to that.

3.  The gov job didn't pan out as with my dad's downturn and other changes it didn't feel comfortable for me to continue down that path.

4.  Been really sick this past week with stomach bug, getting little better but my gut's still doing flip-flops.

More to come...