So it's been an awfully long time since I've posted. Increasingly I've been wanting to revive this sorry excuse for a weblog, but I've been fairly busy with work, in addition to the fact that I'm getting married in a few months. That doesn't mean that the banal and inane (banane?) things that I used to write about aren't still fluttering around ( Read more... )

Deal Reached in Congress on $789 Billion Stimulus Plan

I won't post the whole article, as it is quite long. I will, however, comment on it, as if you actually read it. Firstly, how is it that Republicans, now firmly out of power, can argue that they are the party of fiscal responsibility under the current circumstances? Only 3 Republican ( Read more... )

From fivethirtyeight.com, speaking of Chicago on Election Day:

What To Watch For

Jubilation if and when Obama wins the Presidency, culminating in a rally in Chicago's Grant Park that may draw one million souls. It's not a Cubs' World Championship, but most Illinoisans will take it; what kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude ( Read more... )

Gallup currently has Obama up by 11 points across all registered voters, 7 points among likely voters (using traditional methodology), and 10 points among likely voters using a new methodology they developed for this election to account for the way Obama is drawing support in corners traditionally sidelined from the process ( Read more... )

Continuing my series dealing with political rants nobody gives a fuck about, I offer the following cutting insights...

Recently I have been thinking about the role of political parties in an electoral system; but more specifically, the role of the opposition in any given model. This is, in part, impacted by different numbers of political parties ( Read more... )

Well, that was less painful than I'd anticipated. But why, when speaking to the entire country, is the president allowed to just blatantly lie? Seriously, saying that he wants to cut the US's consumption of gasoline by twenty percent -one fifth- by 2017, but also asking Congress to double the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( Read more... )

If anyone is interested in watching the State of the Union tonight but doesn't have cable, or has a significant other who strictly prohibits the viewing of political television, I found this last year:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS.

It's not so great, but it's better than nothing. Yay C-Span.

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I found this on kalyan3's journal today. Very interesting ( Read more... )

By Thomas Ferraro ( Read more... )