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Bipartisanship

Politics may be polarized these days, but I think we can all pull together as a nation and agree that Debbie Schlussel is a horrible person.
(Whoa, are we returning to form with short, on-topic posts?)

2011 02 17 Politics Comments (0)

The Jeopardy IBM Challenge measures the wrong thing

Spoiler alert: Details of the first game (aired Monday and Tuesday nights) lie after the cut.
IBM has accomplished something impressive by building a computer system that can answer Jeopardy! questions with decent confidence, particularly given the wordplay and nuance for which the show’s writers are known. But if the computer emerges victorious in this week’s exhibition match, [...]

2011 02 16 Politics Comments (2)

I hate … carpet. I hate … desk. I hate … lamp.

Evidently having run out of real things to be angry about, Michelle Malkin just begins getting angry at random objects.

2011 01 12 Politics Comments (0)

The games we play

I really don’t have anything to say about politics at the moment, and though a football post is probably in order, that’s not what you’re getting. Video games aren’t our usual fare here, but over the last year our usual fare has been “not posting”, so any change of pace from that is nice. Maybe [...]

2011 01 02 Uncategorized Comments (0)

I will smash your face. Metaphorically.

Winner of the “most awkward concession speech” category in our election prediction contest was nepharis, who picked Paladino to say, “I’m going to kill every last one of you”. Turns out he was pretty close!

2010 11 04 Politics Comments (0)

Quick hits

15-second opinions about recent news.
- Juan Williams: It’s not about freedom of speech! Nobody disagrees that he has the freedom to say whatever he wants on TV. What outraged conservatives forget is that NPR has just as much right to fire him for being a dumbass.
- Tim Profitt: It is incorrect to generalize this act [...]

2010 10 27 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Empty net

So there was no vote on tax cuts. THEREFORE DEMOCRATS ARE DUMB AND I WILL NOT VOTE THIS NOVEMBER TO TEACH THEM A LESSON
(Quick, everyone, spot what’s wrong with this reasoning!)

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2010 09 26 Politics Comments (1)

Equal Protection

Equal protection: the second-most interesting part of the 14th Amendment, now that challenging birthright citizenship is apparently all the rage these days. (“Until November, anyway,” says the completely-justified cynic.)
As I tried to resist getting out of bed on Thursday morning, I heard the morning radio show discussing Prop 8 in the wake of Judge Walker’s decision. [...]

2010 08 07 Politics Comments (1)

A related, but less useful graph

But seriously, all the consternation in the media about Tiger being in some sort of slump is dumb. (I don’t mean to say that anyone here is engaging in that.)
He’ll be back. Remember 2004-ish, when he wasn’t doing so hot? He hadn’t won a major in two years. What happened? Laser show. Relax. Specifically, he made [...]

2010 07 19 Sports Comments (4)

Experts on making black water

Rather than cleaning up the mess, it might just be easier if BP changed its name to “Xe”.

2010 06 01 Politics Comments (0)