Category: US
C’mon, Tuesday…
I can’t wait for tomorrow to be over. According to the pollster geniuses at FiveThirtyEight.com, McCain’s chances of winning the election are now at an all-time-low 1.9%. Obama stands a fair chance of winning North Carolina (yay!), and could even pull out victories in Missouri, Indiana and Georgia. Amazing. Of course nothing is certain until… Continue reading C’mon, Tuesday…
Every fur tells a story
One of the best things about flying is the in-flight magazine–the schlocky voice of corporate marketing and upscale hub-city businesses trying to attract some tourist clientèle. It’s always an odd mix of high prices and low class. From a recent issue of W!ld Blue Yonder, the in-flight magazine of Frontier airlines, comes the ad at… Continue reading Every fur tells a story
The States of the Union
From the New Economist blog, I learned about this interesting website, the State of the Union, at which you can read the text of every presidential State of the Union address, from G.W. in 1790 to G.W.B. in 2006. The centerpiece of the site is a cool java-script graph charting the length of the speeches… Continue reading The States of the Union
This is not a catfight
Just read the most appalling article in the New York Times, about senators who (rightly) complain that the White House ran roughshod over Congress’s oversight capacity with the whole NSA wiretapping program. The snarky tone of the article would have been better suited to celebrities who’d destroyed a hotel room during a catfight. Here’s perhaps… Continue reading This is not a catfight