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Judgment Day
Every cycle they tell you that this will be the most important election of your lifetime. They might have actually gotten it right this time.
Nobody really has a good idea of what's going to happen. Let's all hope for the best today. -
Deja vu
Seriously, can the FBI just be done with this shit? I feel like I'm watching the election's worst moments eternally on rerun. Let's get back to the work of actually having an election here. -
Brexit!
So now the post-Brexit stuff is going down. It's still very murky and unclear and about the only thing I can see a consensus on is that Cameron is a terrible politician. I mean, really. This is the second referendum he's mismanaged, and he can't even keep his own party in check. They may deserve their just desserts. The rest of the UK probably ( Read more... ) -
Tea Leaf Reading
There's a lot of tea leaf reading you can do in the Presidential Primaries in the US right now. A lot of it can be done with using the ghost votes (early absentee ballots and all that) cast for Republicans no longer in the race to predict who should have stayed in, and what the voters of a state really think. You can do entire pages of statistical ( Read more... ) -
The End of Another Era
So, Delmer Berg is deadI didn't actually know about Delmer Berg until this week, until he died, but he was the last survivor of the Abraham Lincoln brigade, and his death means that a strange but relevant portion of American history has slipped from living memory ( Read more... ) -
Jiggery-Pokery
Goodbye Scalia, we hardly even knew ye ( Read more... ) -
Still Raining
It's been raining for a while, off and on. Some people are beginning to get tired of it ( Read more... ) -
Manliest of Men
So, it's been a while since Turkey shot down a Russian jet and nobody seems to have started World War III ( Read more... ) -
A Reminder That Is Too Late Is Simply Guilt
So, if you are American, hopefully you have done your civic duty. It's probably too late now, but you never know. And if you missed this election day, you can always make it up by annoying your local government in person. It's what I do. -
Three decisions
While everyone is celebrating over Obergefell:
Held: The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State
one should also not forget Texas Department of Housing:
Held: ( Read more... )