Recent content by BobG

Christie trashed him in the last debate; Rick Santorum's endorsement of Rubio ended up as a Christie attack ad against Rubio (worst endorsement ever, even worse than Palin's endorsement of Trump), plus $6 million worth of attack ads run by Bush or groups supporting Bush. But still, between Bush...

An interesting article on why Trump is so popular and what it means for the Republican Party. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-great-republican-revolt/419118/ While I mentioned the possibility of moderates leaving the party, I think option 4 (change the rules) is...

Rubio only has the backing of the "establishment" until New Hampshire. He has a fight to beat out Kasich. The Bush campaign has more money than the other establishment candidates for the primaries past New Hampshire. The only thing Iowa has really done for Rubio is to increase his chances of...

Iowa has a very convoluted system for Democrats. The numbers reflected in the earlier post don't show how many voted for each candidate, but the number of voters is small simply because it's hard to vote (relative to a primary). You have to be available for the full evening and you have to...

A long time ago, I did this with a dentist's bill. They sent out hand printed bills and the 6's looked like zeroes, so I underpaid by 60 cents. After three straight bills for 60 cents at 25 cents postage per bill, I finally dropped off the payment in person (they were located very near my...

I think there's some truth to this. Is it that Trump is loved by Republicans? Or is it that Republicans hate the Republican Party? Richard Lugar gets primaried in Indiana because he's a RINO. There was an attempt to primary Lindsey Graham because he's a RINO. There's no fear of criticizing...

Real programmers probably don't program in Basic on a Commodore 64, either. I even had some programs that made it easier to program in Basic (and still didn't use them to their fullest because, every time I renumbered, I'd have to relearn the line numbers for each of the subroutines). I used...

The opposite conclusion, Republicans are 11% more likely to have watched Aladdin, is probably more likely. Have you watched that movie? I'd rank it as the second worst Disney movie ever (only Pocahontas was worse).

I prefer to do it in crowded elevators right before I get off. Then I spend the rest of the day pondering whether they ultimately blamed me or decided upon one of the remaining elevator passengers to blame. And if they did blame one of the remaining passengers, I ponder which passenger they...

Exactly. Set up the scales so the answer to any number on the C scale divided by 4 appears on the D scale. And the natural log of any number on the log log scales also appears on the D scale. Somewhere, the number on the C scale is the same as the number on the log log scale. It does help to...

Take the natural log of both sides: e^x=x^4 x = 4 ln x Now I'll bet you can find the solution(s).

A more complete version of the quote. To be honest, I don't even know what he means by that statement. With Carson, I'm never quite sure if he's the world's worst communicator or just stupid. Given that he's a neurosurgeon, you think he surely can't be stupid, but...

For people that see Sanders as a viable candidate, having people use him as the threshold between bad and horrible probably rubs them the wrong way. But the point is that Trump and Carson are both probably already near their maximum support level. If the entire field were reduced to Carson and...

The narrow alleyway pictures are from San Luis Obispo. I've been there. Seeing that made my life so much fuller. More importantly, chewing gum is a great way to exercise your face. Not as good as watching Jack Lalanne, though. His face exercises are even better than chewing gum (and the...

A large number of RINOs have (at least theoretically) left the party and now consider themselves independent. There is still a large number of RINOs left in the Republican Party. "True Conservatives" may eventually succeed in pushing all RINOs out of the party, but are there enough "True...