I was surprised by the sudden announcement of the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on May 4 of next year. This was after the announcement that Congress voted to cut funding for National Public Radio (NPR). Religiously, I relied heavily on the shows the Daily Show and the Colbert Report on my […]

In the same CNN poll that gave Trump a 20% lead, Hillary Clinton had a 58% to 30% to 2% lead over Sanders and O’Malley.  The last CNN poll included Vice President Joe Biden.  Clinton had the largest gain after Biden’s exit at 13% followed by Sanders at 1%.  The poll asked their voters who […]

If one clicks on the number of likes for a Facebook page one will see statistics for that page: the number talking about the page, the total number of likes, and the number of new page likes.  Below are statistics obtained from the desktop version of Sarah Palin’s page (the one where she started the […]

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook The last post has provoked a strong reaction from Charnin and another on my argument on voter fraud and exit polls.  Another response to this is, in  2004 some were claiming voter fraud with Diebold automated voting machines, especially […]

Statistician Hans Rosling, in a BBC documentary called The Joy of Stats, presents a neat 3-D graph presented below about how life expectancy in wealthy countries has improved over the last 200 years from the time of Napoleon Bonaparte to the present while poorer countries continue to lag behind. You can see in the clip […]

2010 can be called a year of anxiety. In Europe and the US, we see protesting because parts of both societies fear that their fabric is coming apart at the slightest suggestion of change. In France’s case, the labor unions are staging nationwide strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the minimum retirement age […]