One of the most damning bits of evidence in the Lott controversy had been that the 98% figure for defensive gun brandishings he said he found in his 1997 survey had been previously attributed, not just to “national polls” (consistent, if misleadingly so, with his intending the poll he’d conducted) but also to FSU gun […]

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April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, […]

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I call upon the vasty open-source powers of the blog community to assist me where Google fails… I’m editing a book at work, and one of the things I’m trying to do is replace certain references and quotations from the author’s native Sweden (the book’s in translation) with equivalents from folks who’d be more familiar […]

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