It’s a common observation in psychology and behavioral economics that normal human reasoning often violates formal norms. Many people might, for example, judge it more probable that a librarian will be an introvert and wear glasses compared to a question about librarians just wearing glasses. It should be the other way around, since among librarians … More detail or less?

Well-known novelist Richard Hoyt has written Twisted Script, a novel that satirizes both Evangelicalism and Islam. Apparently he’s had trouble getting it published through conventional means. (Surprise, surprise.) So he’s making it available very cheaply online. If anyone is interested, take a look.

Apparently, probable US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich just declared that “I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9,” Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church here. “I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular … A secular atheist country dominated by radical Islamists