A Little Short on Those Risk Assessment Skills (or: Expectant Mom of the Year)
![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="415px" width="469px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)
Bonus reading: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article Big and Bad: How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety, in which the author talks about what people worry about when they worry about safety: “not risks,
however commonplace, involving their own behavior but risks, however
rare, involving some unexpected event.”
Recent Posts
The highest-ranking Black Medal of Honor recipient’s article on the Department of Defense’s site has been removed and marked as “DEI.” Why?
Major General (Retired) Charles Calvin Rogers was the highest-ranking African-American to receive the Medal of…
Sunday picdump for March 16, 2025
Another Sunday, another “picdump!” Here are 200+ memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet…
TV caption of the day
A Swedish TV program labelled Vladimir Putin as “President USA.” My thoughts on this:
[Update] A true is friend is someone who would hide you. Canada has been that friend to the U.S.
[ The original version of this article is incorrect, so I’m substituting its content with…
Notes for the kakistocracy, 2025-03-10: Even Peter Zeihan says we might be the USSA, the danger of one-party states, JD Vance’s much cooler cousin, and why we need to be bold
A reminder: kakistocracy means “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent…
The better Vance: JD Vance’s cousin Nate was a volunteer soldier in a Ukrainian battalion
Le Figaro, a daily newspaper in France that’s been around since 1826, has published an…
View Comments
Apparently the risks to her unborn child from her smoking are a known entity and therefore do not worry her.
Dude, I probably shouldn't admit this, but The Roanoke Times is my hometown newspaper !! Now, if I ever make it Toronto, I'm buying you three beers. Really. Bullitt Ave is on the other side of town. I'd like to say all the intelligent people are on my side of town, but I live in the American South, unfortunately people in Roanoke are generally as dumb as they look. I've been to Boston. I love Boston, it is much better.
Joshua Day
Roanoke VA USA
Worry not, Joshua -- dumb people are everywhere: north, south, east and west.
As I like to say: "You know how dumb the average person is? Assuming a normal distribution curve for IQ, half of them are even dumber!"
Man, that is one picture that speaks for itself. As for Roanoke, went there on a high school exchange, and met Erica Lipps. And she came by that name honestly.
Slippy, Honey. That was 15 years ago. Move on.