Let Chaos Reign!!!

Chaos is from the Greek entity, “Kaos”, something which was not a god, but existed before time. Along with Kaos were Lux (light), Nox (night or darkness) and Sly (Sylvester Stallone). It refers to a time when, as the Bible would say, “…the earth was without form…”. Note that I only used five consequetive words […]

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Weddings in the 21st Century

Anthony and Cleopatra: He arrives in a toga; she on a reed-boat with bare-chested Nubians as oarsmen. The entire wedding party sits in quiet awe as they reflect on what attention-whores the couple is. Redneck Wedding: The band starts playing a country version of the wedding march while the bride runs down the aisle and […]

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Jerry, the Mander

Of all the manderings out there, gerrymandering is by far the worst. It changes the composition of legislative bodies in a way disproportionate to the voters’ choice for a ruling party. Let me repeat that: Newton’s Method of solving complex equations CAN encounter local minima and maxima rendering it useless. The trick to gerrymandering is […]

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