Input Junkie - February 10th, 2008
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09:57 am
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Weather and shipping
Last Saturday, I sent a package by priority mail to be delivered to Ann Arbor. It was reasonable to expect it to get there by Wednesday. I sent it from Philadelphia.
It still isn't there. The post office says it was hung up by bad weather. For reasons which are unclear to me, it was sent by way of Washington. The state of Washington.
There've been bad storms in the US recently, but I'm unsure of the placement and timing, so I can't tell if the idea that the package was hung up by weather is reasonable.
A fast googling doesn't turn up any sites that track how weather would be likely to affect shipping times. It seems to me that such a site would be hard but possible, and conceivably profitable if it had ads on it.
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01:34 pm
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The evangelical wild card
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/229/story_22903_1.html
Generally speaking, however, evangelicals ranked traditionally progressive or Democratic causes as more important than traditionally conservative or Republican ones. Twenty three percent said their views had become less positive about Republicans, twice the number who said they’d soured on Democrats, though half of respondents said they had become less positive about both parties. Almost 60-percent said they favored a more progressive evangelical agenda focused more on protecting the environment, tackling HIV/AIDs, and alleviating poverty and less on abortion and homosexuality.
Combining those who labeled an issue "most important" or “very important,” the results were:
The economy (85%)
Cleaning up government (85%)
Reducing poverty (80%)
Improving public education/access to health care (78%)
Protecting the environment (70%)
Ending torture (68%)
Ending Iraq war (67%)
Ending abortion (61%)
Combating sex and violence in the media and entertainment (59%)
Illegal immigration (59%)
Stopping gay marriage (49%)
Helping Africa (48%)
Winning Iraq war (46%)
Fighting Islamic radicalism (58%)
Anyone have any idea approximately how many evangelical Christians there are in the US?
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