The Adam Carolla podcast discusses some odd behavior from Kevin Smith and Jon Stewart calls in. The stuff about Kevin Smith was surprising. I'd say it's just one side of the story, but they play a recording of Smith's side of the story too. Looks like Kevin Smith is trying to get them together though. -decker

One theory, anyway. -decker

Jay Leno on his MacLaren MP4-12c If I ever win the lottery, the F1 will be my first purchase. -hendred

Cool Graphical breakdown of the 1% by occupation. The only thing is that it goes by household, so if a teacher making $40k a year marries a banker making $$$, the teacher ends up on the graphic as well. -hendred

Romney is in the 15% tax bracket.

After speaking to a smaller-than-usual crowd on Tuesday morning in Florence, S.C., Mitt Romney took questions from the press and said that his effective tax rate was about 15 percent.

“It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Mr. Romney said. “Because my last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from some investments made in the past, whether ordinary income or earned annually. I got a little bit of income from my book, but I gave that all away.”

Mr. Romney added: “And then I get speaker’s fees from time to time, but not very much.”

In fact, in the most recent year, Mr. Romney made $374,327.62 in speaker’s fees, at an average of $41,592 per speech, according to his public financial disclosure reports.

The vast majority of Mr. Romney’s income this year came in the form of investment income, whether dividends or capital gains on mutual funds and retirement accounts, or his post-retirement share of profits and investment returns from Bain Capital, which would be subject to the same 15 percent tax rate.

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Jump to 50 seconds in to start.

The Buff will match all Republican donations to the Treasury. He's going 3-1 on McConnell's donations. -hendred

Charts of fatal car accidents. It'd be cool to see in terms of miles driven, but still interesting. The whole blog's worth putting on your RSS list. -hendred

Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms? and Trials and Errors, about how hard it is to determine causation in complex systems, particularly the body. -decker

From JT.

Great skateboarding photos of 2011 -hendred

Daily Kos hatemail. Communist, etc. Marked no desks just because of language. -hendred

Not Remotely Steampunk For those not familiar, Steampunk at Wikipedia. -hendred

UVM SigEp was shutdown due to a survey asking "Who would you rape?" I guess the real problem was they closed ranks to protect the originator, so the national and school lowered the boom. The comments section is like the internet equivalent of a Rorschach test for the word 'frat'. -hendred