Posted in News & Commentary on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Dwight Whorley of Richard, Virginia is a sick guy. He’s into child porn, and he needs all kinds of mental health counseling. What I’m not convinced he needs is 20 years in prison.
Were he the child pornographer I would have no qualms with the sentence. Indeed, those who exploit children might deserve even harsher [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Dec 15th, 2008 No Comments »
It goes against the grain of the holiday season, but the President and the whole neocon cabal sprinkled throughout his administration should be tried as war criminals. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody makes this abundantly clear.
The only good news of this report is [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Dec 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Nintendo suffers the Japanese-English translation blues. Again.
Hysterical.
Posted in News & Commentary on Dec 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Your happiness could be contagious:
On average, every happy person in your social network increases your own chance of cheer by 9 percent — and the effects of catching someone else’s happiness lasts up to one year. The study, which looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over 20 years, was published online Thursday in the British Medical [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Nov 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
You should enter. Really.
Posted in News & Commentary on Nov 24th, 2008 No Comments »
You know this one is right around the corner:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2008/11/22/
Posted in News & Commentary on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Nov 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
…if you’re gonna bail out the auto industry next, how about doing it this way (as suggested by Fractals of Change):
…The US government should order a complete replacement for its vehicle fleet to be delivered over the next four years. The new vehicles must be either plugin electric hybrid, pure electric, or possibly natural [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Nov 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
From Nate at 538:
Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be “must-wins” for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, [...]
Posted in News & Commentary on Oct 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Obama in a landslide (375-163). He’s smart, he’s run a great campaign and he’s got a ground game that McCain can’t match. Plus he’s got Biden and McCain has the albatross of Palin.
Play with an interactive US electoral map here. Without further ado:
McCain
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
Obama
California
Colorado
Connecticut
DC
Delaware
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana(!)
Iowa
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin