@meghan_daum I thought it was terrific
Good, memorable, lesson on 1) how folks can mislead us with bad faith statistics 2) importance of always having bear spray on hand 3) we need to take stats
@eyeslasho I’m thinking that our roaring economic growth, that followed world war 2 and the Great Depression, along with our new interstate system, gave folks the freedom to explore our nation. Plus, Kerouac made it cool. (Also, conformity was what WW2’s losers did)
@AliceFromQueens@meghan_daum Authors would get mad because TNR reviews of their book barely touched on the book at all. One I remember. Gertrude Himmelfarb recounting a party where she harangued a fellow guest on how evolution is false. (It was a perfect know-it-all performance by a vain know-nothing)
@DLTarqytek@OwenGregorian Watts said that he’d accept the results of the BEST study. When that study found that earth is getting hotter, Watts decided he preferred to continue peddling the same nonsense he’d always been peddling.