Looks like Donald Trump is too disgusting for even some Republicans.
First Elected GOPer To Leave Party Over Trump Compares Him To Hitler • 2016 Jun 7 • Allegra Kirkland • Talking Points Memo
GOP Sen. Kirk Withdraws His Support For Trump After Judge Attacks • 2016 Jun 7 • Sara Jerde • Talking Points Memo
Always remember that Occam’s razor is primarily about the aesthetics of scientific theories and only secondarily about actually describing the complexities of reality.
Sometimes five very common events occurring all at the same time are a more likely explanation than one extremely rare event, no matter how elegant that latter explanation may be.
Or to put it another way: when you hear hoofbeats, five horses is still more likely than one zebra.
Hickam’s Dictum is a counterargument to the use of Occam’s razor in the medical profession. The principle is commonly stated: “Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please”. The principle is attributed to John Hickam, MD. Hickam was a faculty member at Duke University in the 1950s, and was later chairman of medicine at Indiana University.
Hickam’s dictum • Wikipedia
The anti-prescriptivist part of me thinks you should be able to choose between one or two spaces. It’s the prescription of either as the only correct way that’s totally and utterly wrong. The Romans didn’t even use spacing or punctuation for that matter or even the letters G, J, U, or W, and those guys conquered all of Europe and signficant chunks of N Africa and the Middle East, so clearly typography is a very infinitesimal concern for a burgeoning civilization ;)
But the part of me that decries the total disdain of expertise that is part and parcel of anti-intellectualism thinks that if typographers and style guides all agree that one space is preferred, then we should prefer one space.
Space Invaders • Why you should never, ever sue two spaces after a period • 2011 Jan 12 • Farhad Manjoo • Slate