As annoying as this column is, it's probably a good sign. You see these sorts of fatuous arguments whenever liberals aren't winning the debate. Jonah Goldberg has illustrated this before.

This is only ostensibly about polygamy. The point is to remind everyone that Romney is a Mormon. In the media's imagination Mormons are weird.

If you point out Barack Obama Sr.'s polygamy, you are just reminding people that he is African. Africans aren't weird; Africans are numinous.

Remember the uncanny valley? The point of these articles is to make Romney the political equivalent of a prosthetic hand. Pointing out Obama's oddities just puts him in stuffed animal territory, which is not a bad place to be.

What is Earth Hour? Was Earth Day too long?

Am I the only one who doesn't understand the context of this post? I think I slept through the entire sentimentalism spasm.

The other reason the play stops every few seconds is to give the players a short time to rest. Football demands that the players sprint and exert the maximum amount of strength on every play. The spectators and coaches demand this level of performance. Players in high-intensity positions can and will be substituted at any time due to fatigue or just to satisfy the team's need for certain personnel on a specific play.

As a Buffalo Bills fan, I have come to expect my guys to be ignored even in Hall of Fame complaint threads.

Up here in Western New York, the groundhog's prediction of 6 more weeks of winter augurs an early spring. Here's to some warm weather in March!

The whole brouhaha from the internet folks about SOPA reminded me about the first of Robert Conquest's 3 Laws of Politics: "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best."

Every conservative knows that a huge 1000 page law from Congress is probably the worst way to solve any problem, but those mostly-leftist internet users are only aware of it when Congress threatens their small corner of the world.

I had to laugh out loud at the cognitive dissonance limned here. A certain group of people (journalists, academics, most politicians, the rest of the left) just cannot think any bad thoughts about green energy.

Anyway, the piece is hilarious. Besides, it's not just that this could have been predicted. It was inevitable. But since climate skeptics were saying so, the thought that solar panels in Germany wouldn't work was a thought that couldn't be thought.

The Garbage Plate is unique to Rochester, NY.

Buffalo is home of the Buffalo Chicken Wing and the Beef on Weck sandwich. Although you can get wings just about anywhere now, I have found that no places outside of Buffalo really get the sauce right.

My parents are from Binghamton, the home of Spiedies.

It's true. Romney will not stand up to Barack Obama. He has no chance. Also, the rest Republican field is weak.  I believe that people began to support Newt because it looked like he might stand up to Obama, but it was a false hope. None of the other knuckleheads stands a chance either. All we can do is continue to "fight the long defeat" with joy and humor. Merry Christmas!

Later on in the show Rush did walk back on his comments somewhat, especially after talking to some callers.

In the Monty Hall problem Assumption 3 does not exist. Randomization occurs before it is revealed whether door B or C has probability 0 of containing the prize. The order of operations is such:

Assumptions: Pr(A) = Pr(B) = Pr(C) = 1/3.

Let the contestant choose door A.

At this point Monty looks behind the doors and knows where the prize is. There 2 outcomes:

1: The prize is behind door A, probability 1/3. Monty opens either door B or C.

2: The prize is not behind door A, probability 2/3. Monty opens either door B or C.

The opening of the door provides no new information to the contestant whether the prize was behind door A or not. Door A still has a 1/3 chance to have the prize.

The rise in unpaid internships looks like a new apprenticeship system. I surmise that it is growing in response to the inability of businesses to evaluate potential employees and the inability of the typical college graduate to do useful work. Apprenticeship solves both problems by allowing the new workers to be evaluated in a work environment for low cost and by training them on the job.

If it makes you feel better, Rob (using what he will learn in the future) called Texas the largest state. John Podhoretz correctly called Texas the 2nd largest state. By the way, what was the 3rd largest state when you were in junior high?

It's stories like this that make me wonder why the president can't find anything to cut in the budget.