Dr Wingnut

Month: January 2006

  • Dr. & Mrs. Wingnut at home

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    I don’t want to read your blog.  Just tell me how your day was.Cartoon from USA Weekend, 27-29 January, 2006If they just knew how truthful this was… Except Mrs. Wingnut also wears glasses.

  • Peter Hutchinson for Governor

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    Peter launched his campaign for Governor as an Independent and appeared on Almanac on 27 January, where he said that his leadership would not focus on the five G’s (Guns, Gays, God, Gambling, and Gynecology), the issues upon which we cannot agree, but on how to move the state forward, and to fix our broken…

  • Humanity

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    It is impossible to overemphasize the immense need humans have to be really listened to, to be taken seriously, to be understood.Dr. Paul Tournier, M.D.

  • Benfield’s Law

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    In a large set of data, the frequency of the occurrence of the first digit of the numbers in the set is not evenly distributed.  The number 1 turns up as the first digit about 30% of the time, more often than any other.Dr. Benford derived a formula to explain this.  If absolute certainty is…

  • Work

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    There’s a big difference between busy and real work.Tom McGreal, Iowa farmer

  • Mistakes

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    Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde

  • Greatness

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    We grow small trying to be great.E. Stanley Jones