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We love you, Homeland Security
It's amazing what you find when you clean out your pack. It appears that, unbeknownst to me, I have been travelling with a utility knife (aka, "box-cutter") in one of my pieces of standard carry-on luggage for the last decade ( Read more... ) -
Mass. Health care predictions
As you may or may not know, Massachusetts has just embarked on a fascinating new health care experiment. Basically, it requires everyone to have health insurance, and subsidizes insurance for poor people without employer-provided insurance through a fee on employers who don't provide insurance. The expectation is that this is going to lead to ( Read more... ) -
Geek Public Service Announcement
Geek Public Service Announcement ( Read more... ) -
A question for my fellow code-monkeys out there
Hey all you code monkeys out there! It's an "is there a name for that thing where..." question ( Read more... ) -
Political Memo
Dear American political class and party members ( Read more... ) -
Final Alitorama
I promised a slightly more substantive and opionated piece on the Alito hearings. This is not as much fun as mocking the hearings, and in fact is pretty dull throughout. It's just a few things that I found important. Anyway, here it is.
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Alitorama IV: Beyond Capitoldome!
Let's finish up the Alitorama.
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Alitorama III: Destroy All Justices!
Today we finish up with "round 1" -- that's the 30-minutes per senator Q-and-A round -- and begin "round 2," which is the same as round 1 but with only 20 minutes per. Actually, round 1 didn't quite finish yesterday, so we start with that.
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Alitorama II: The Return
Ah, day 2. While yesterday was trial-by-ordeal for the audience, today is the first of two days of trial-by-ordeal for the nominee. Alito will face a nine-hour oral exam, during which he must not so much as twitch.
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Alitorama!
I'm sure that you all raptly watched, listened to, or read transcripts of the confirmation hearings of Chief Justice Roberts, although you may have mistaken them for a nature documentary in which a pack of monkeys throw their own feces at a long-suffering narrator. Basically, Roberts successfully proved that he was smarter, better-educated, and ( Read more... )