[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:03:57PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

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> Note: that doesn't for a minute mean that what the governments in the
> US report is the truth: they routinely fudge despite evidence to the
> contrary.

My favorite variation of this is in the press, headlines like:

"Despite falling crime rates, prison poplation on the rise"

A great example of not being able to see how the second might have led
to the first.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org