Whose White?
Everyone agrees that in the United States, whites vote GOP. New Dealer asks why it is, then, that he can’t find whites that do.
Monthly Archive: November 2013
The Anti Rent-Seeking Amendment, Part II: The Amendment
James Hanley proposes a No Rent Seeking constitutional amendment. The second in a two-part series.
Calling All Stations
I’ve spent the last couple days trying to get my new antennae working. I was hoping that, while my brother was in town, I’d be able to get some NFL games for him. Try...
Mo’ Meta, Mo’ Betta
Via BoingBoing, please enjoy an opinion piece on a controversial topic. The comments may be better than the OP, and that’s saying something.
A Mon Tiki sailing update
If you want to use a sailboat as transportation rather than mere recreation, you have to get yourself into a Nineteenth Century frame of mind. But what exactly does that mean?
Ideology Is The Enemy: The Competing Cancers
On average, men wait significantly longer for prostate cancer surgery than women do for breast cancer surgery – and a lot of people are calling foul. The lesson to be learned from this much ballyhooed statistic? That more and more, ideology is forcing us to choose narrative over data. Tod Kelly explains.
A Pretty Ingenious GOTV Strategy
This is probably old news for a lot of political followers, but I was unaware this was something Democrats (and maybe Republicans? Don’t know) have been doing:
Friday Night Videos: Boomers Rule!
Scarecrow and a yellow moon, and pretty soon a carnival on the edge of town.
Thoughts on Double Down
I plowed through Double Down, which I recommend if you are one of the relative few who belong both to the set of people who like politics and the set of people who are not...
The Anti Rent-Seeking Amendment, Part I: Definitions
James Hanley proposes a No Rent Seeking constitutional amendment.
Weekend!
When the alarm went off this morning, I did the quick “turn it off, turn it back on” thing. Then I realized that I could turn it back off.
