anecdotal evidence

I first encountered the term Oblomovian lassitude on a private blog I am privileged to read. Soon after, I stumbled over the term again on another blog, Anecdotal Evidence, where Patrick Kurp was discussing Samuel Beckett thusly…

What to do with one's content? How does one weigh the benefits of free versus paid?

The Democratic primary is set to continue for a few more bruising weeks

One of the interesting/frustrating things about politics, is you have pundits who obsessively try to compare the current political environment to one from their past...and when they do so, they often take a very skewed, inaccurate, and simplistic view of the past.

Citing several sources, DailyTech reported yesterday that a "Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming."

Mr. Turnbow shares some anecdotal evidence that America has not yet fallen into the depths of a full-scale depression:

Daily Tech reports,

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

We have a problem.
A twelve-month long drop in world temperatures erases global warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin [...]

What a difference a week can make....WSMV has a new poll out, which shows dramatically different numbers than a previous poll from January 22nd, and it shows a surge for Barack Obama in Tennessee.

Hillary Clinton has edged up 2 points to 36.

Barack Obama has gained 11 points from 20 to 31.

The family pet is the other, forgotten, victim of foreclosure.

The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull.