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Palin is corrupt
...or at least she's acting liking it. Refusing to meet with the independent council? That looks bad...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate -
The election
The more I find out about Sarah Palin the lower my opinion of her becomes. The latest comes from The New York Times (see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html) and confirms everything I have read previously, and then some. She is ( Read more... ) -
Sarah Palin
Can anyone watch this interview and still say with a straight face that they take Sarah Palin seriously as a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States?
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Secret Primary
Apparently the state of California will be having an election on June 3rd. This seems a bit strange, since we just had a primary election back in February and will be having another election in November. Three elections in one year? It seems inefficient ( Read more... ) -
140 characters or less
Discovered microblogging-- posts must be 140 characters or less. As Strunk & White said: "Omit needless words". www.twitter.com/idomeneus -
Quip of the day
From the Economist's blog on Super Tuesday (yes, I know that was two days ago...)
Since the Economist doesn't use bylines, its correspondents got colors. Mr. Red was quite funny:
8:31 : Mike Huckabee wins Arkansas. Take that, the Theory of Evolution.
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Negative Bubbles
It's been obvious that the housing market was going to crash for a long time now, but the big question in my mind has been whether this would result in a "negative bubble", i.e. a bubble in the other direction, where downward pressure on prices creates a positive feedback loop that ultimate drives prices below fundamental value. We're a long way ( Read more... ) -
NeoOffice
Why does NeoOffice separate the arguments of a function with semicolons instead of commas? Just to discourage people from adopting it? -
Myers-Briggs
I just took the Myers-Briggs test available at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htmRead more... ) -
A political opinion
Growing up, I took it for granted that I was free to express political opinions without worrying that someone was keeping track of them and someday would use them to determine who got sent to the Devil's Lake Internment Camp. Those halcyon days may be fading, but I am not quite willing to be muzzled. Besides, I expect to be living in some other ( Read more... )