Wonk Like A Man
Paul Ryan is wonky. You can tell this is so because he is frequently described this way by Very Important People. Like in this ABC news video. Or this Daily Beast column. Or in this NYT column....
View ArticleDebate The Controversy!
As we all know, there are two - and only two - sides to every story. It's an article of faith in contemporary American political life. He said one thing, she said another. We must, of course,...
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Embrace the War on Women for the Win
About a year ago, I wrote about a model of US Presidential elections by UCLA's Lynn Vavreck. Vavreck's model, like almost every poli-sci model of this type with any predictive power, is mostly based...
View ArticleMourdock's Crime is Theism
Republicans can't seem to keep from diving into the nexus between rape and abortion during this "jobs, jobs, jobs" election. Aside from the obvious - that this is probably a bad political play for a...
View ArticleI'm Here Today To Save The Romney Campaign From Itself
Against my better judgment and my general belief that the cake of this unrelenting election cycle has long been baked, I'm going to give Willard Mitt "I'd Shut Down FEMA" Romney a bit of advice, 100%...
View ArticleDavid Brooks Is The Worst Parent In America, Or At Least That's What I'm...
In yesterday's David Brooks column, he offered a tepid endorsement of Mitt "Thurston Howell" Romney for President. Brooks games out what the next two years will probably look like under Romney or...
View ArticleWhat's the Big Idea This Election? Reality
Many voices, from the hallowed blogs of Dag to the exalted table around which Mighty Joe Scarborough and his colleagues convene, have decried the lack of substance in this election (though I'm pretty...
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Don't Vote - It's Completely Irrational
One of the interesting things about voting is that there isn't a good reason for it, especially from the perspective of modeling human behavior that's common in fields like economics. In order to...
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Black Rifle Blues
Everyone is sick right now. There's only one thing it seems we can all agree on, which is that we can abide the massacre of children neither in conscience nor gut. It's an unfortunate truth that what...
View Article"What Can We Do to Stop Massacres?"
UPDATE: This April 2010 report by the US DOJ states, "Moreover, nearly half of all public schools have assigned police officers." Obviously, this statement does not make clear whether or how they are...
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