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LEFTIES.
According to Tyler Cowen, "Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Gore, and now Obama and McCain are all left-handed." I, too, am left handed, which means I am almost certain to be president someday.
Here are some more famous lefties.
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COMMENTS (15)
Of course, if I recall correctly, there is a higher percentage of left-handed people in the national jail population than there is in the general population. Just laying that on the table.
Posted by: Fnor | June 23, 2008 4:43 PM
Is that sign really from Left Hand Brewing of Colorado? Love their Milk Stout.
Posted by: Ronnie P | June 23, 2008 4:50 PM
Yep, we've had left handed presidents for all but seven years since 1981. Should have voted for the left hander that other time, too. Oh wait. We did.
Posted by: SBG | June 23, 2008 4:54 PM
Lefties, if I remember correctly (Son Two is a lefty) have somewhat higher IQ's than the general population, and they tend to be more creative types overall in their thinking and doing.
Though many, of course, would argue that this is a sinister interpretation of the data. ;-)
Posted by: litbrit | June 23, 2008 5:22 PM
A Sinatra interpretation LOL?
Fly me to the moon....
Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation....
Hey, and they all had testicles too (as far as I know).
Now we know why Muslims hate the US. In Islam, the left hand is exclusively used for certain bodily function cleanups, as far as I know.
But, in all of the cases cited, we don't know if wanking is sinister, or ambidextrous, and they were likely wankers - some more obviously than others.....
Posted by: JimPortlandOR | June 23, 2008 5:29 PM
But, in all of the cases cited, we don't know if wanking is sinister, or ambidextrous
Wasn't that discussed in The Princess Bride?
Inigo: I'm going to do it left-handed.
Vizzini: You know what a hurry we're in!
Inigo: Well, it is the only way I can be satisfied. If I use my right, over too quickly.
Posted by: Tyro | June 23, 2008 5:32 PM
His right hand didn't know what his left hand was brewing.
Posted by: Lindsay Beyerstein | June 23, 2008 6:00 PM
Ross Perot too
one year we had 3 lefties running at once.
Posted by: frank | June 23, 2008 6:09 PM
Higher IQs and a much larger proportion of geniuses than the percentage of population would suggest but also significantly higher rates of schizophrenia, alcoholism and having weird balls.
Posted by: Mike | June 23, 2008 6:33 PM
My mom says my being left handed is a birth defect. Something to do with having less oxygen at birth.
Anyways have you noticed that left handers hang out together? Of my top 5 male friends in high school 4 of them were left handed.
Posted by: Gordon Gekko | June 23, 2008 9:17 PM
"less oxygen at birth"
and i have been hyperventilating ever since! :-)
it is a privilege to be left-handed
in this right-handed world.
dont blame me...i'm lefthanded:-)
Posted by: jacqueline | June 23, 2008 9:50 PM
I read about the same thing a few months ago. Before Ford, there were only three left-handed presidents: Garfield, Hoover and Truman. Just a sign of endemic anti-gauchism that until the 20th century or so, we were cruelly forced to learn to write with our right hands. Which former president would have stood up and proudly been counted as a leftie if not for unfair prejudice, I wonder?
Posted by: Cyrus | June 23, 2008 11:45 PM
I, too, am left handed, which means I am almost certain to be president someday.
Excellent use of Bayesian probability theory.
Posted by: mk | June 23, 2008 11:55 PM
Ezra,
Did your mother not give you a copy of The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander when you were little?
Posted by: Trevor | June 24, 2008 2:28 AM
So you're saying that Gore is left-handed and Dubya's not? Finally, the hard evidence we've been looking for that the 2000 election was a farce! :p
Posted by: Rabbit | June 24, 2008 12:14 PM