Fun facts for the day - did you know that there are at least 500,000 not-yet-process ballots in California? (And that's with only about 1/5 of the counties reporting in how many unprocessed ballots they have. Notably, one of the counties which hasn't reported in is L.A. If the ratios going in several of the other large counties hold up, that ( Read more... )

Now here is a movement I can get behind! Not really safe for work generally. And I doubt it'll actually have any global effect, but it couldn't hurt. Also, the 'demostration' video under the science section is cute. Oh, and the site has music, but it's not particularly annoying music, so I'll kinda forgive them ( Read more... )

There was a bill recently passed by the US House of Representatives, H.R. 4437, The Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Act of 2005. It is, as one might guess from the name, on the subject of illegal imigration into the U.S. It is seriously, seriously flawed ( Read more... )

I don't usually post links to these sorts of things. But this article made me deeply happy. In much the same way that The Daily Show makes me deeply happy (and somewhat disturbed that they're both necessary).