Heh! Just last week, I was teaching my “Maps and Society”* students about misleading choropleth maps due to area-population variation — and the use of cartograms (those trippy “distorted” maps) to correct for this. I even used the exact same examples.
*Despite the name, not a high-level course for specialists, but rather a general education one — mostly first and second year undergrads, of any major.
I just want to thank you for the earworm of Leonard Nimoy singing “Bill Barr, Bill Barr, Bill Barr, Bagman!”
So, yeah. Thanks for that.
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
No, I don’t have anything useful to say right now.
Do you really think the Secret Service will side with Trump? Why would they? Presidents come and go. As soon as a new president is sworn in, they’ll simply arrest any trespassers in the White House. Nothing personal - just doing their job.
Remember the old Atari game Pitfall? I never guessed it was a look 40 years into the future at the southern border!
White House releases a statement about these accusations. What the statement does not contain is a denial.
We already have the Rio Grande…wouldn’t a moat be redundant?
I would take that course!
The trick is to put the moat IN the river. That way it comes as a complete surprise.
I’m in GIS, so I often wear my cartographer hat.
re: Trump’s preferences for Wall: Doesn’t it seem strange that a man who considers himself a “master builder” doesn’t know the difference between cement and concrete? That he never had the basic curiosity to ask what buildings are made out of?
(Cement is one component of concrete…the binder that holds the sand and stone together. Building a cement wall would be like making an airplane model out of glue)
We all misunderstood about the whole alligator thing. He didn’t want a “moat” he wanted a “Moot”.
“Now the press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Southern Border. I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!”
Thanks! Would you believe, that was the textbook for the course, until a couple years ago. I still assign several chapters from it (plus one from Monmonier’s later book No Dig, No Fly, No Go.)
You should come to St. Louis. The NGA has a huge facility here and they hire a lot of map people. I bet some of our local universities would like to have a teacher in your field
(I’m a cybersecurity professor. I send a few of my students to the NGA too.)
I don’t think that fuck will EVER face justice for anything. And it disgusts me to no end.
Thank you — I’ll pass this on to our brighter GIS/remote sensing/geoint students.
Booking rooms in Trump hotels as a way to curry favor is pretty obvious as it is. But it becomes even more obvious when you book a bunch of rooms, then don’t actually stay in them. That would be pretty dumb, right? Well, evidently at least one trade association and foreign government did just that.
Remember all those times when Republicans said they wanted to run the country like a business? Well, they’re doing it.