"Please help a dear friend, Sarah Kirsch, an important figure and driving force in the ’90s Bay Area punk scene and beyond. She continues to be an important part of our community, our culture, our music scene, and many of our lives.
Even if you don’t recognize this name, you probably know Sarah. She has been a huge part of the punk/radical community for decades as Mike Kirsch (Fuel,Sawhorse, Pinhead Gunpowder, John Henry West,Torches To Rome, Bread And Circuits, Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack, Baader Brains, Mothercountry Motherfuckers, etc.). She not too long ago came out as a proud trans-woman, and almost immediately was confronted with these terrible health problems."
Sarah Kirsch has died of
Fanconi Anemia.
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posted by josher71
on Dec 6, 2012 -
21 comments
Everyone knows that
correlation doesn't imply causation, but researchers invariably need to come up with plausible explanations (i.e., models) for the patterns found in their data. However, very different models can "explain" the same pattern. The books
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It and
Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places by Oxford economist
Paul Collier try to explain why some countries have remained poor using data from econometric studies. In his
very interesting review (PDF),
Mike McGovern, a political anthropologist at Yale, critiques the types of explanations found in popular economics books. Statistician Andrew Gelman has further thoughts on
descriptive statistics, causal inference, and story time.
posted by Jasper Friendly Bear
on Jul 13, 2011 -
59 comments
Mike Doyle (
blog one,
blog two) is an artist who was previously known (by boardgamers) for
boardgame artwork. He burned out on boardgame art and has taken up a new medium...
with stunning results. This is his very first model and it's an astounding work of craftsmanship, detail, mood, and tone. This is the kind of work that many builders would kill to do after several years of building.
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posted by Legomancer
on Sep 30, 2010 -
13 comments
Don't ever accept a Tequila shot from Fat Mike While performing as
Cokie The Clown at SXSW this year, Fat Mike of
NOFX made a lot of folks uncomfortable telling stories of his fucked up childhood, his mother's death, and of other crazy shit he allegedly witnessed and did throughout his life. The biggest "gag" of the evening involved Tequila. I imagine they would have been even more uncomfortable at one of
these shows.
posted by snottydick
on Mar 25, 2010 -
120 comments
Mike Wallace interviews Rod Serling in 1959, discussing timidity and censorship in television programming, and Serling's upcoming series
The Twilight Zone.
Part one.
Part two.
Part three. (TouTube links)
posted by Astro Zombie
on Nov 14, 2008 -
13 comments
CNN has invited Sen. Mike Gravel to the Democratic Presidential Debate on CNN. This was after reporting CNN would not invite him back and large public protest. Democrats will take the stage at Saint Anselm College on June 3, Republicans on June 5. Youtube links, If you missed him on the
CNN debate or the after on
MSNBC.
posted by IronWolve
on May 1, 2007 -
89 comments
More dating webloggers. Online journallers, really:
Stephanie polled her readers as to whether she should go out with
Mike. They voted overwhelmingly in favor, and now she's traveled from Detroit to Columbus to meet him. Everyone's watching with bated breath. Well, every one of their readers, anyway ... but
five thousand people voted in her poll.
posted by dhartung
on Nov 17, 2000 -
22 comments
