I swear, the only people on this planet who actually both (1) support civil unions, and (2) do not support gay marriage, are Democratic politicians.

They want to be able to tell gays, "I support equal treatment for you!" while telling religious conservatives, "I'm against gay marriage!"

Bunch of crap.

All this time, as I've been working on my presidential vote model, I've been ignoring all the votes cast for third-party or independent presidential candidates ( Read more... )

I kept staring at the two most anomalous results, after putting together my GDP+primary+Republican presidential vote model. Why did Nixon do so incredibly well in 1972, and why did Gore do so incredibly poorly in 2000? Yes, I know Gore won the popular vote, but he should've done so much better based on how the economy was doing. And Nixon's ( Read more... )

"To be truly atheistic, not just agnostic, you have to take the nonexistence of God on faith." - L.M. Boyd ( Read more... )

Paul Krugman is echoing my LJ ;-)

It’s hard to overstate how destructive the economic ideas offered earlier this week by John Boehner, the House minority leader, would be if put into practice. Basically, he proposes two things: large tax cuts for the wealthy that would increase the budget deficit while doing little to support the economy, and ( Read more... )

Republican Minority Leader John A. Boehner called for a reduction in federal spending to 2008 levels ( Read more... )

Et tu, Brute? Now even my Democratic Governor, who is up for re-election, is bragging on Facebook about how he cut state spending during the recession ( Read more... )

Latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office show that total federal spending for the first 11 months of fiscal 2010 is 2.4% below the same period in 2009 ( Read more... )

... when every media outlet on the planet seems to know exactly what his Wednesday speech will propose doing to help the economy ( Read more... )

SEX IS MAIN CAUSE OF POPULATION GROWTH