http://disqus.com/by/Keith_Hopper/enWed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:46 -0000http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/03/will_mccain_die_in_office.html#comment-2030248<p>Actuarial Tables have data on height, weight, smoking history, marital status, and exercise - all publicly available data on McCain. For example, McCain admits to have been a two-pack a day smoker for 25 years.</p><p>MetLife's Life Expectancy Calculator uses this data and puts his chance at dying while in office at 50/50, NOT 1 in 3. Check for yourself:<br><a href="http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,4773,P14788,00.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,4773,P14788,00.html">http://www.metlife.com/Appl...</a></p><p>-Keith</p>hopperomaticWed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:46 -0000http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/07/16/peak-oil-meet-public-media-engaging-the-community/#comment-910429<p>Great post, Todd. Here are many good public broadcaster-initiated community conversations around oil, gas prices, etc. from shows "NPR's Car Talk", "PRI's The World", and stations WOSU, KQED, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUER, etc. here: <a href="http://is.gd/USE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://is.gd/USE">http://is.gd/USE</a></p>hopperomaticWed, 16 Jul 2008 11:14:32 -0000