Author Archives: Steve Maley

Six Reasons to Reject Donald Trump

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Steve Maley

I’m a Republican base voter, right down the middle. Every Republican candidate for President since Ford in 1976 has received my vote. I’m comfortable with my vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 (even though I did agonize over that … Continue reading →

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The Day I Bolted the GMAT

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Steve Maley

I had to chuckle about this LinkedIn message from Melissa Booth, Assistant Dean at Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business: “Dear Steve – I have come across your profile and wanted to reach out because of your impressive background. You … Continue reading →

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Benford Test in Milwaukee is No Indication of Ballot Shenanigans

Posted on November 8, 2020 by Steve Maley

Benford Analysis is a statistical test commonly used in forensic accounting to identify potential fraud. With partisan suspicions naturally elevated in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election, a flurry of articles has hit the Internet suggesting use of the … Continue reading →

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Justified: Eight months of Paranoia about Ballot Integrity

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Steve Maley
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There once was a Biden named Hunter …

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Steve Maley

NY Post Hunter Biden article #1… NY Post Hunter Biden article #2

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Nehemiah Builds a Wall

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Steve Maley

Today’s scripture lesson and sermon — from the Book of Nehemiah — was quite remarkable. Usually sermons at our large United Methodist church deal with the Gospels, with an occasional detour into the Old Testament for background. The Book of … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Delta’s Intensity, in Pictures

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Steve Maley

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I can’t think of a better way to convey the intensity of a tropical cyclone than graphs of pressure and wind velocity vs time from one of NOAA’s permanent weather buoys … Continue reading →

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Gaslight Much, Nancy?

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Steve Maley

On the Twitter this week, an interesting video snippet of Nancy Pelosi describing a tactic called (in her words) “the wrap-up smear“: “We call it the ‘wrap-up smear.’ You smear somebody, with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you … Continue reading →

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“What if it was YOUR (grand)parent?”

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Steve Maley

That was the rhetorical question posed on the Twitter this morning. The implication being that because our elder population is the demographic most vulnerable to the ravages of the coronavirus, any caring person is for the full monte: quarantine, masks, … Continue reading →

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“Dear Dr. Maley Steve”: On the Value of Peer Review

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Steve Maley

Several hurricane seasons ago, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious journals among academic researchers. Even submitting a letter (this one was a rebuttal of a … Continue reading →

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