Uhm... the thread change was a joke. I'm still waiting around for Scott to continue his denial that increasing a categorical expenditure by 468% within a political budget would not destabilize a budgetary income vs. expenditure ratio. Let alone that Saint Bono feels that increased taxation is acceptable for me, but not himself. The image of Saint Bono mustn’t be tarnished. *taps finger tips together* Excellent.

In other news, I think a lesbian student “outed” herself tonight in class. Yeah—that was, er… fun. A little context—I have been using the Popperian example of a chicken and farmer relative to discussing the implications of inductive vs. deductive reasoning relative to true science (vs. pseudoscience). I’m thinking that if it’s good enough for Popper, it’s good enough for my girls. Well—it wasn’t. The example never took. So I modified it to include two girls unknowingly dating the same guy. Well, that one worked. Anyway—tonight, I made reference to that example (“you know, the girlfriends and their boyfriend”) and this student blurts out “or her girlfriends.” There was an awkward silence. In which I terminated with, “not that there’s anything wrong with that…”

And for the record, I didn’t see that one coming. No, I just didn’t see that one coming. Sometimes, knowing one’s sexual preference orientation whatever isn't hard to imagine; and often times, it's just plain and obvious common sense. Just like all those people in Takoma Park. But no, not in this case. It was kinda like Portia de Rossi. And I still refuse to believe the rumors about Salma Hayek. If we lose her, then perhaps the heterosexuals just may have to regroup like the republicans. But I digress.

Matt may get a kick out of this; last week I was exceedingly proud of my Type I vs. Type II statistical error example, which included the dilemma of a girl being set up on a blind date. She can either: go on the date and run the risk of being with an ugly boy (type II error), or ditch the date and run the risk of missing out on a hot guy (type I error). It should be noted, however, that I will start to use non-gender-specific examples...