uncertainty

Today I learned that the County Attorney's Office in Phoenix has, at the risk of making everybody nuts during election season, reluctantly reported that illegal aliens are responsible for about 19% of felony convictions but only represent about 9% of the population. So now we have some actual data to counteract the effects of that fancy Sunday-morning article, published slightly less than two weeks ago in this same newspaper, that was able to report that no one had any data on anything, anywhere.

To keep our cluelessness quotient constant, I will now report that despite knowing that sunspot activity follows an 11-year cycle, predicting how strong or weak the sunspots will be during the cycle is as easy as predicting the behavior of the stock market.