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Political Math For The Day
Pennsylvania is a must-win swing state in November.
PLUS
The airwaves in Pennsylvania from now until April 22 will be flooded with ads vilifying Clinton and Obama.
EQUALS
President McCain.
(Feel free to apply this retroactively to Ohio. Plus, Clinton is doing a great job making Florida and Michigan residents feel that the Democratic Party doesn't ( Read more... ) -
For Children of the 1980s...
Christopher Eccleston's latest role &mdash yet another flashback to our collective youth. -
For those who think electronic ballots are easy easily rigged...
Nothing is more easily rigged than the average voter:
Some votes were apparently lost, however, when about 20 folks at a Chicago precinct were given styluses designed for touch-screen machines instead of ink pens. When voters complained the devices made no marks on their paper ballots, a ballot judge told them the markers were full of invisible ink ( Read more... ) -
Woo-Hoo! We're not the only retarded industrialized nation!
Apparently, a quarter of Britons think that Churchill was a myth, and half think that Sherlock Holmes was real!
I'm sure that if you asked Americans, a quarter would think George W. Bush was a myth (well, perhaps he is), and that half think that Cookie Monster is real (well, perhaps he is), but still, at least we're in good company. -
Primary Day!
People who live in NY, NJ, CA, GA (or is it AL?) and MA should remember to vote!
(...I think that covers it for the people who are on my friendslist) -
NOW has lost its mind
Apparently, the New York chapter of NOW thinks that Ted Kennedy's support of Barack Obama is a betrayal of all women, everywhere.
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Earthquake!
There was a 5.6 earthquake about an hour and a half ago ( Read more... ) -
Three Strikes and...
I was in a conversation with a couple of people last week, and I expressed my abhorrence of three strikes laws, because they allow the government to send you to jail for life for stealing a slice of pizza. My interlocutors expressed some surprise and, I might add, not a little disbelief at this fact.
This week, in Missouri, a man faces life ( Read more... )