Errors

Jason Linkins

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Says Zombie, Comatose Man Need To Team Up To Bring Peace To The Middle East

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Yasser Arafat, Errors, Video, Middle-East, Pennsylvania, Regrets, Ariel Sharon, Joe Pitts, Politics News

Presented without comment, here is the report from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Replying to a Chester County constituent's email regarding Middle Eas...

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Jason Linkins

Fox News' Graphic Department Having A Very Bad Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Video, Errors, 2012 Election, Fox News Fail, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Fox News, Media Criticism, Fox-Graphic, Barack Obama, Media News

Earlier today, in what might have been the unkindest cut of all to poor Mitt Romney, the Fox News Channel ran a graphic that didn't quite capture the ...

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Jason Linkins

UK Press Association Inadvertently Uses Concentration Camp Photo To Accompany 'Train Rage' Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stock Photos, Errors, Eat the Press, Media Criticism, Media News

Ahh, the perils of using stock photography! Picture yourself: you're writing up a brief news item for your website and find yourself bereft of any po...

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DeathWish Airways: Alan Greenspan and the 30% Chance of Error

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mistakes, Financial Crisis, Errors, Global Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Business News
Kathryn Schulz

If Alan Greenspan thinks he's wrong almost 30% of the time, shouldn't he have been a bit less adamant about the accuracy of his economic theories? Back then, maybe an openly acknowledged error-rate could have saved us. Now, it is simply galling.

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Michael Lewis's The Big Short: Betting (Right) on Armageddon

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Errors, Cornwall Capital, Moneyball, Stock Market, Books, Steve Eisman, Mortgage Crisis, The Big Short, Michael Lewis, Capitalism, Liar's Poker, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, Book Reviews, Mistakes, Financial Crisis, East Village, Books News
Kathryn Schulz

You could argue that The Big Short is about a lot of different things. But I read it as a story about the social, personal, and intellectual conditions that can produce dazzling rightness or staggering wrongness.

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Dear Richard Laermer

Liz Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Variety, Errors, Liz Smith, Celebrity Gossip, Corrections, New York Post, Gossip, Tony Awards, Syndicated-Columns, Huffington Post, Richard Laermer, Entertainment News
Liz Smith

I am still working for a living because I like to work and I am not rich enough to retire. Maybe that's what you find "unseemly."

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Religious Conviction: Effects on the Human Brain

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Errors, Attention, Brain, War, Cingulate, Acc, Forgiveness, God, Anxiety, The Inner Life, Stroop, Healthy Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

When our beliefs are invested in something greater than ourselves, they protect us from anxiety because our attention is not on what is going on inside of us.

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William Kristol: Future Imperfect

Gerald Bracey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Errors, Bush Administration, Bill Kristol, Predictions, Bush, Bush Legacy, George Bush Legacy, Media News
Gerald Bracey

According to Bill Kristol, Bush has to win in Iraq to have any hopes of being judged successful. That gives him 38 days to become successful.

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Connecticut Voting Problems Hotline Has Problems

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Errors, Voting Problems, Chris Shays, Voting, Connecticut, Politics News

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut officials say there are problems with an election hot line that's been set up to report voting irregularities. ...

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain Interview On Palin Riddled With Errors

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Errors, John McCain, Russia, Iraq, Alaska Energy, Sarah Palin, Interview, Interview With Palin, Politics News

As if to quash the emerging news narrative that John McCain is afraid of the press after going a full month without holding a press conference, the Re...

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