Oh, and that whole Madoff thing, and the Ponzi scheme? (I kept referring to it as "that thing that reminds me of Fonzi from Happy Days" because, having never heard of it before, I couldn't ever come up with Ponzi before I actually sat down and read a few articles about it.) Does this system of taking the next guy's money, promising big returns ( Read more... )

Oh my god.

I wrote a sort of current event review paper thing for polisci about this study published that says that not only is there a strong correlation between winners of elections and physical attributes, but consistently in head-to-head fictional matchups, women were rated less competent.

( Said quickiepaper with more info on the study )

I am weirdly not tired, considering I got 2 hours max of sleep last night with my papers and shit all being due today. Probably due to it being a pretty good day (at least early on)--got my lab report done to my satisfaction, as well as the lab notebook, polisci was good (I love how Dr. Dutton says "Like in Alexandria's West Wing" every time she ( Read more... )

Something I was just thinking about ( Read more... )

Martin Sheen on the Emmys just quoted my political philosophy/favorite West Wing quote: Decisions are made by those who show up. I really need to finally get that on a shirt--I've been talking about doing it every election forever ( Read more... )

OMG beautiful weather today. Downright chilly most of the morning--add the windchill from bike riding and I was goosebumpy through all of my polisci class. Which is interesting. The class, not the goosebumps. It's one of those ones where all the material is interesting, but you come out of it looking over your notes and wondering what exactly ( Read more... )