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"To have that culture that embraces failure, that will take a chance in order to get better, but know..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:34:30 -0400

“To have that culture that embraces failure, that will take a chance in order to get better, but know that there’s a chance where it blows up, that’s what I like and respect about the organization and the culture that we have right now.”

- Bay Area Sports Guy – Jed York: ‘We weren’t sure how Colin was going to play’

"There are several things to say about the Oregon study, but I think the most important one is this:..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:38:30 -0400

“There are several things to say about the Oregon study, but I think the most important one is this: not that the study didn’t find statistically significant improvements in various measures of health, but that the study couldn’t have found statistically significant improvements. It was impossible from the beginning.”

- What We Know—And What We Don’t—About the Oregon Medicaid Study | Mother Jones

"It’s rare for Texas to require insurance for any kind of hazardous activity,” he said. “We have very..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:39:26 -0400

““It’s rare for Texas to require insurance for any kind of hazardous activity,” he said. “We have very little oversight of hazardous activities and even less regulation.””

- The Texas Fertilizer Plant That Exploded Had Barely Any Liability Insurance

Apparently not quite everything is bigger in Texas.

"Conservatives rejected Bushism without demonstrating any understanding of why it was adopted in the..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:34:00 -0400

“Conservatives rejected Bushism without demonstrating any understanding of why it was adopted in the first place, or why it was rejected. That’s George W. Bush’s political legacy: a weakened Republican Party unable to face its flaws.”

- George Bush’s True Legacy? A Republican Party in Denial - Bloomberg

"For us, staying indoors on Friday was no different from staying in during a winter storm so that the..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:05:37 -0400

“For us, staying indoors on Friday was no different from staying in during a winter storm so that the snowplows could clear the streets. We were giving the professionals room to work.”

- Marathon Day | Desperation Device

"That’s it, extend him. The next thing you know, 2019’s here, and another team will be..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:46:27 -0400

“That’s it, extend him. The next thing you know, 2019’s here, and another team will be pawing at Bumgarner. Extend him. You can’t be too careful. Because what was that we just watched? One of the best starts we’ll see from anyone all year, and there are still 160 games left. Goodness.”

- Madison Bumgarner: empirically better than assorted Dodgers players - McCovey Chronicles

"But mostly they’ll get 100% out of what they have while the more talented and monied Dodgers seem..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:24:58 -0400

“But mostly they’ll get 100% out of what they have while the more talented and monied Dodgers seem intent on getting 50%. I think they’ll have to keep the pedal down all season to beat L.A. and it might still be close around September 1, which is when the Dodgers will fold for good and finish 4-to-8 games out.”

- 2013 Previews/NL West: How To Lose A Pennant « Baseball Nerd

"No economic model can prove that government interference in the economy by nature tends to do harm...."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:58:57 -0500

“No economic model can prove that government interference in the economy by nature tends to do harm. While economics can show that some government programs will fail—rent control, say, or confiscatory tax rates—it cannot show that all government programs will fail. As for the various moral arguments for libertarianism, they are even weaker. Liberal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin and Amartya Sen have long since shown that libertarians simply fail to grasp the full dimensions of equal liberty, which does not demand, as libertarians would have it, that everyone should be equally free to starve, but that everyone should have a fair chance to pursue his goals freely. This principle may require a more active government than libertarians would allow.”

- Defining Conservatism Down | The American Conservative

"This is one of the harsh truths you learn when you get married: Basic shit like a table costs a..."

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:38:51 -0500

“This is one of the harsh truths you learn when you get married: Basic shit like a table costs a fucking fortune. Two grand for a wooden table. And it’s not like the surface of it is a giant iPad screen either. It just sits there and does nothing. This isn’t even a big table, and it certainly isn’t the most expensive table of its kind. The chairs that go along with this table are $395 each. JEEEEEEESUS. If it were up to me, my family would eat dinner off a milk crate.”

- The Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

"It seems as though a higher percentage of conservatives are more inclined to question empirical..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:37:00 -0500

“It seems as though a higher percentage of conservatives are more inclined to question empirical methods, to put it diplomatically.”

- Skew Yourselves: Nate Silver Is Here To Answer Your Questions

"Independents. State polls showed Romney winning big among independents. Historically, any candidate..."

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:24:29 -0500

“Independents. State polls showed Romney winning big among independents. Historically, any candidate polling that well among independents wins. But as it turned out, many of those independents were former Republicans who now self-identify as independents. The state polls weren’t oversampling Democrats and undersampling Republicans - there just weren’t as many Republicans this time because they were calling themselves independents.”

- Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss - CBS News

"As a Republican, I also implore my fellow Republicans to take the lead in setting the tone for a..."

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:18:55 -0500

“As a Republican, I also implore my fellow Republicans to take the lead in setting the tone for a results-oriented lame duck session, by reaching across the political aisle to invite collaboration on these massive issues that will dictate the future health of our economy. Not only is this the right approach for the country, but it is the path the Republican Party must take if it is ever to return to majority party status in America.”

- Press Releases - News & Events - United States Senator Olympia Snowe

"The “quant triumph” here is more about the way we’ve approached the problem: a..."

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:03:51 -0500

“The “quant triumph” here is more about the way we’ve approached the problem: a blend of political insight, statistical modeling, a ton of code and a fire hose of data from the pollsters.”

- Simon Jackman: Pollster Predictive Performance, 51 out of 51

A Collection of Premature Obama Obituaries « The Boogle

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:47:18 -0500

A Collection of Premature Obama Obituaries « The Boogle

"One of the many reasons that the conservative movement is in such deep trouble is that those who..."

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:01:21 -0500

“One of the many reasons that the conservative movement is in such deep trouble is that those who were wrong here will suffer no consequences and those who knew the truth will receive no benefit.”

- John Ziegler: Why the Conservative Media Got It So Wrong

"The most notable recent case of a candidate substantially beating his polls on Election Day came in..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:42:50 -0500

“The most notable recent case of a candidate substantially beating his polls on Election Day came in 1980, when national surveys had Ronald Reagan only two or three points ahead of Jimmy Carter, and he won in a landslide instead. That year is not comparable to this one in many respects: the economy is much better now, there is not a major third-party candidate in the race, and Mr. Obama’s approval ratings are about 50 percent rather than 35 percent for Mr. Carter. And in 1980, Mr. Reagan had late momentum following the presidential debate that year, whereas this year the momentum seems to favor Mr. Obama.”

- Nov. 5: Late Poll Gains for Obama Leave Romney With Longer Odds - NYTimes.com

"He sees it as part of the rise of what’s being called Big Data—that is, using actual information to..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:01:53 -0500

“He sees it as part of the rise of what’s being called Big Data—that is, using actual information to make decisions. As Jackman points out, Big Data is already changing sports and business, and it may be that pundits are the equivalents of the baseball scouts in Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball, caring more about the naturalness of a hitter’s swing than whether he gets on base.”

- The Rise of the Poll Quants (or, the Demise of the TV Pundits) - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"I believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:28:11 -0400

“I believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the Oval Office. He understands that America was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. In the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. But he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the health-care model he signed into law in Massachusetts.”

- A Vote for a President Who Will Lead on Climate Change

"Marco Scutaro, who crawled through a September with the 2011 Red Sox and came out clean on the other..."

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:21:28 -0400

“Marco Scutaro, who crawled through a September with the 2011 Red Sox and came out clean on the other side. Marco Scutaro.”

- The Giants win the pennant - McCovey Chronicles

"I hated everything about that team: Oquendo’s beard, that awful artificial turf at Busch Stadium,..."

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:13:36 -0400

“I hated everything about that team: Oquendo’s beard, that awful artificial turf at Busch Stadium, Ozzie Smith’s fancy gymnastics routines on that turf, the way Cardinals catcher Tony Peña would sit on his ass with his legs splayed out behind the plate, Terry Pendleton, Todd Worrell, Whitey Herzog … it took me a while to warm up to the idea of Willie McGee playing right field for the Giants years later, even though he was a tremendous player.”

- Bay Area Sports Guy – 10 reasons why the Giants were destined to face the Cardinals in the NLCS