Pride Only Hurts
“The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps. – Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction That quote kept going through...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Post-Election Instapundrity: Do the Democrats Have a New Coalition?
by James Hanley A few years back, during the G.W.B. administration, an older political scientist I know was bemoaning the fate of the Democrats. “They need to rebuild the New Deal coalition,” he said,...
Turns Out Citizens United Only Changed the Volume
Tod Kelly rightfully points out that last night’s losers were ” the well-off Republicans that paid billions of dollars into Super PACs such as Rove’s American Crossroads. Billions of dollars collected, spent, and it...
Scoreboard!!!
Who called this election first? CNN? FOX? MSNBC? Pikers, the lot of them. I beat them all by six months. I eagerly await my lucrative contract from the New York Times.
It appears that the big loser of the evening is Karl Rove…
… or perhaps more accurately, the well-off Republicans that paid billions of dollars into Super PACs such as Rove’s American Crossroads. Billions of dollars collected, spent, and it bought them nothing. The Republicans maintained...
PSA
I’d like to take a moment to publicly thank poll workers for doing a likely very boring job under likely very irritating circumstances for likely no recognition… except highly negative recognition. (“What do you...
A Vote For Johnson Is A Vote For… Johnson
I have grown so frustrated with Twitter that I’m about to uninstall it from every device I own. I’ve noticed that it seems to run in a diurnal cycle: [Read more…]
Vote Your Conscience
I will do my best to be brief. I am voting today. But I am not voting for President Obama. I urge everyone else not to vote for him as well. I will do my...
Election Day Jukebox And Open Thread
Tell your voting stories here. Was it a touch screen? Was it a punch ballot? Was it a scan-tron kinda ballot? Tell the rumors you heard about other people’s voting stories here. Heck, everybody...
Sometimes Politics Feels Like This
Hopefully tomorrow won’t. (Comic Courtesy of The Perry Bible Fellowship – http://pbfcomics.com/20/)
Walking Dead Discussion Thread: S3 E4, “The Enemy Within”
*Spoiler Alert: Do not read this post or the comment section if you have not seen the show. Also, for those who have read the comics, please do not discuss plot elements not revealed on the...
Locking in Election Predictions
Is there a site where we can all register our election predictions, with maps of the country and how we think different states will play out? It might be fun to do that along...
Off the grid.
As I’m becoming more and more inclined to write an intemperate rant regarding statistical literacy and mathematics, I’m going to stay off the internets for a few days. Probably until wednesday, perhaps till the...
Sometimes I’m a Crank.
Among the less substantive of my many reasons I hate daylight savings time, I have six watches that I have to change. Two of which I have to change twice because they are digital-analog...
Treme, Season 3, Episode 7, “Promised Land”
Watch this video on YouTube Sofia is one of the characters that it often seems as though Treme could do without. After losing her father in the first season, she’s been a very young...
Bookers: Fishing Strong Whiskey
Enough politics. Focus on what’s important, people! This month’s selection for our Bourbon club is Booker’s, a high-end, cask-strength product from Jim Beam. At 130 proof, this is among the stronger of spirits that you...
What If It’s the OTHER Reality?
Though I’ve made my view of the electoral situation pretty clear, I’m well aware that Tuesday’s election will be damned close. I’m well aware that as encouraging as Nate Silver’s model/conclusions are, he still predicts...
Why wasn’t there a mutiny on the Bounty?
In the LA Times, from email from Claudene Christian to her friend Rex Halbeisen, the crew member who lost her life on the Bounty’s last voyage: “You know me, I am not a mechanical person...
