After Corbu

Sadly, today my hopes that public transit would be a panacea for anti-social behavior were, once again, dashed. PT: not a sufficient condition for people to develop enough affinity for their fellow man to avoid being mean to beggers.
Today, as I left the metro a woman was asking for money for food. […]

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More evidence of the delusional nature of Clinton supporters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqVkYWq1wc

…and the youtube primary continues to go to Obama in a landslide.

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When he runs through the numbers and facts, rather than make proclamations based on his gut, Chris Bowers is the best election analyst on the web.  So, when he makes a convincing case, I feel comfortable believing him.  Therefore: barring an act of god, the underdog doesn’t just beat the spread, but wins outright.
The great […]

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Apparently all the cool kids are running for President (Despite being an academic, nonhuman, and British respectively — not exactly a group that screams electable, or even “legally electable”), but I’m going to take a different tack and declare for National Zoning Czar. True, it doesn’t have the same aura of “President” — or exist […]

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So this is disappointing, but I have no doubt Lessig will resurface doing exciting things elsewhere, with his Change Congress movement just the beginning.

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I mistakenly stumbled into the bad side of the internet today when I clicked on Steve Sailer’s name in a comment thread. For those who have been blissfully ignorant of his recent musings hack job: Michelle Obama is stupid, a clear beneficiary of affirmative action, and hates white people. It’s real hardhitting journalism.
This […]

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My crack legal team is busy holding meetings and issuing memorandi to fight this cartoon, which violates the terms of use of the ‘Quixote’ handle.  My namesake never tilted at abolishing the income tax!  Moreover, I have it on good authority that the Don is backing someone else:

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In my former life as a high school debater, I once faced a guy who kept accusing me of possessing “audacious audacity” to forward some argument (presumably meaning the words in the pejorative sense).  I’ve long since forgot the matter in dispute — but not the ridiculous word choice! — and so it was hard […]

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The title is really all I got in response to dude becoming much more popular among the ladies (and white people!), at Clinton’s expense.  Unfortunately, this means that my prediction that Edwards will win the nomination is looking more and more unlikely.

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Zeitlin compares the coming Lessig for Congress campaign to Obama’s, and I’m not even going to object to the hyperbole since I’m nearly as excited.  There’s been some talk in the ’sphere that the country would be better served by FCC chairman Lessig, and while that may be true in the short-term, Lessig’s impending movement […]

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With his lever stuck on full pander, McCain had no choice, when confronted with the email revealing Obama’s secret Muslimness, but to release his own plan to help al-Qaeda win the war on terror. I don’t see very many terrorists voting for Obama now, but since the commies are still in his pocket, the […]

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I’m going to punt on the question of whether Cuba’s political oppression is outweighed by its social welfare provisions, and instead point to the psuedo-Soviet client state next door, Nicaragua, as a bizarro-Cuba where there was regular democratic elections after the revolution. The result: The US spent (spends?) millions of dollars influencing the […]

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Chris Bowers presents an inspiring argument for space travel and I wanted to provide my own.
Engineers are often (justifiably) stereotyped as asking ‘what is the right tool?’ but never ‘why build?’  And, indeed, the pure technical challenges of space travel excite me no end.  My dream job would be Martian Structural Engineer — I want […]

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For McCain’s VP: 
Cons: JoePa is 147 years old.
Pros: He is immortal and cannot be killed by conventional means, making him a good man to step in should something happen to the President.
Convincing.  And he is probably the only man in America who could make McCain look spry.
Digging deeper, if we imagine a world where each […]

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I’ll grant you, REM lover, that caucuses are inaccessible, particularly to traditionally disadvantaged sectors, but that’s not the same thing as undemocratic.  In the limit case, if one eliminated all the voting restrictions currently in place (age, citizenship, residency, not-a-felon status) you’d have a pretty radically different system — one that I could probably get […]

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Obama’s big ideological competitor is…Ron Paul?
I wondered where the Baptists for Brownback has gone after he withdrew from the race.  Now I know.  I only hope that years from now the performance art group collective individualitive behind the Ron Paul internet blitz holds an exhibition of all their work.

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