‘Math cluelessness’ may be in your genes

In what sounds like it is a bit analogous to dyslexia, it seems some people just don’t have agood feel for numbers.

No word in the story as to how heritable number sense, or its lack, is.

OOPS in Afghanistan on American bombing

Cell phone pix appear to confirm that a major U.S. bombing run last month killed dozens of civilians, something the Pentagon has adamantly denied:

A U.S. military official, who has seen the cell phone imagery but asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said Monday there were about 30 bodies, some covered and some in blankets.

There were "several children who appear to be pulled from the rubble," he said.

Add mistakes like this, and the bullheadedness in refusing to admit them, to why both Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin are wrong about adding more troops to Afghanistan.

The heartless of BushCo on Cuba

As Hurricane Ike is set to basically obliterate Cuba, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says “I don’t think … lifting of the embargo (against Cuba) would be wise.”

Let’s see if John McCain toes the BushCo line for Cuban votes in South Florida or not.

Snopes says ‘Whoa, Nellie’ on Palin book-ban list

While not denying that, as Wasilla mayor, Sarah Palin may have objected to some library books, the good folks at Snopes shoot down rumors that she actually did ban any books, let alone a particular list of them that’s now circulating the Net.

(The first “Harry Potter” book hadn’t been published yet at the time Palin began pushing librarian Mary Ellen Emmons.

Eat a blank check, America!

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson still can’t tell us the final price tag on the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac bailout.

Wunderbar.

“It’s the economy, stupid.”

Empty Cabinet promise from McCain?

Schmuck Talk Express™ is promising to name Democrat(s) to his Cabinet, if elected.

Question: Since Joementum, Joe Lieberman, still caucuses with Senate Democrats, is McCain counting him as a Dem?

Let’s see McCain make a promise besides naming Joementum his Secretary of State.