Shorter Constitutional Argument
And I may get around to posting a longer one when I’m not about to dash off to Sacramento, but: There are many subjects on which reasonable, well-meaning people can disagree, often with no clear...
View ArticleThe Budget: Facepalm Edition
John Scalzi links to a New York Times online feature called “You Fix the Budget“, which purports to let you eliminate various categories of spending and raise various categories of income to come up...
View ArticleTake the credit
The real puzzler isn’t why Jared Loughner shot Congresswoman Giffords and a bunch of innocent bystanders. It’s why the politicians and demagogues who have encouraged violence are backing away from him....
View ArticleCry More, Wealthy n00B
Why people should stop whining and pay their goddamn taxes already, from one of those small business owners who the Fortune 500 like to use as a human shield. h/t John Scalzi
View Article“…..it was the combination of liquor and jazz that led to her downfall”
To everyone’s profound nonsurprise, various pundits and public figures are attributing the UK riots to the old favorites: lack of parental discipline, and the degenerate culture of Those People. (You...
View ArticleLabor Day
Growing up, half the people I knew swore that a great-uncle or cousin or grandpa was on the bridge that day: Battle of the Overpass And while I also like the Great Big Sea version this is hard to beat:
View ArticleSinister Marriage
Over here on Earth-Alpha, you may have heard of today’s big appellate court decision. No, not the one on regular Earth about same-sex marriage; we’ve had that on our parallel timeline pretty much...
View ArticleNo, it won’t lead to incest
Apropos of the 9th Circuit’s ruling on Proposition 8, rather than raise the same arguments again we can just turn to Ampersand’s analysis of why same-sex marriage won’t make incestuous marriage more...
View Article“The culture war is between rich liberals and rich conservatives”
Following on the heels of David Frum’s excellent takedown of famous crank Charles Murray’s latest book, Andrew Gelman explains why the meme of the rich latte-sipping liberal elites vs. the...
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Democracy in Akron
[cross-posted at Alas, A Blog] I was supposed to be doing this somewhere warmer, like Las Vegas. Every election cycle, there are organizations that send out lawyers to act as poll monitors in...
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