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Republican Health Care Tells
Mary Matalin was on The Colbert Report tonight, and after she was done lying about “deem and pass”, she talked about Republicans’ plans for “repealing” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka: health care reform). Here’s a tip for seeing through Republican talking points on health care; if they preface their statements by claiming [...]
Cheap thought
That radio shack was the largest thing TPM has watched spontaneously implode since the Bush administration
Cheap Thought
Can’t ACORN just rename itself ‘Xe’?
Cheap Thought
Maybe Chuck Grassley can use the money he’s going to be slicing out of poor people’s health care subsidies to buy himself some vowels.
Victimhood
Maybe the only way for Democrats to be as effective in turning out their base is for their ideological (not political) leaders to whip up their core voters into the same state of perpetual victimhood that Republican leaders have been fomenting for the last 16 years (“The liberal media! The liberal media!”). Even if it’s [...]
Legislation as trolling
The Senate recently narrowly defeated a gun law amendment that would have allowed concealed-carry permits to be valid in any location, regardless of where they were issued, effectively gutting state and local gun laws. First of all, federalism in gun laws is really the only sensible position for a country that contains both Montana and [...]
Web Security is Hard
Backstory: A friend asked me what privacy or security concerns are raised by services like Twitter. I got on a bit of a roll, so I decided to post it. To be clear, my main point here is that security on the web is really complicated, even for a service as “simple” as Twitter. These [...]
Visualizing the 2004 Red Sox
I love data visualization. I love baseball. Flip Flop Fly Ball is an amazing combination of the two. Inspired by what’s possible with Photoshop and baseball stats, I decided to see what I could do programmatically. My first results are below.
Shorter Grassley
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