- Decision 2010 I’m a bit more bullish than most about the Democrats’ chances. This is mainly because I believe that polls are much less independent than even Nate Silver suspects. Pollsters were all over the place in 2008, and then mostly converged to a 7-point Obama win. I don’t think numbers are fixed, but [...]
< Zack> as a general question, unrelated to China policy at the moment since the question seems quite a bit bigger than that, should we be trying to engineer our economy to support more domestic manufacturing?
< Diapadion> I’m gonna go with no
<Zack> you know, we usually try to explain our opinions in this channel<Zack> Conventional [...]
<harveyj> gerrymandering, marginalization of third parties<Aerion> would it really solve the third-party problem?<harveyj> not in small states<Aerion> so in CA, TX, and NY you might get a seat or two<harveyj> yeah<Aerion> and vermont >_><harveyj> ha<harveyj> personally i’m not that sure third parties are actually that marginalized<harveyj> i do think it would help with regards to [...]
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!)
<Zack> we also need to talk about this government shutdown business
<Zack> looking at how republican obsturctionism has been viewed by the
public over the past two years I see it going extremely badly for
[...]
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. [...]
<harveyj> Someone ask Sarah Palin if we should ban the NRA from Oklahoma City
<harveyj> * Aerion makes a cheap shot about John Boehner rooting for the Dutch team
We’ve been discussing how to make BP pay for the cleanup of the oil spill for a little while. It’s common knowledge by now that BP’s liability is limited to $75M, and the fund that is associated with that liability cap can pay out $1B for the incident. In doing some half-assed research on the [...]