This Old House
Sunday, 21 November 2004One of the things about having an older house (in our case, about 35 years old) is that even the smallest repair can open a Pandora’s box. Since I started using the shower in my tropical paradise bathroom, I noted that water was leaking under the shower door, leaving a puddle on the floor each [...]
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Undecided Voters
Friday, 19 November 2004A great article in the New Republic about undecided voters — those people who decide virtually every election in American politics yet appear to be completely misunderstood by the political machine. What’s interesting here is the distance between what most people think about undecided voters and the reality. I would pull a quote, but I’m [...]
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Terrorist Strategy 101
Wednesday, 10 November 2004A fascinating piece from the Daily Kos Diaries. [Thanks, Jake]
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Quote of the Day
Tuesday, 9 November 2004I hate repeating the cool kids’ memes. But it’s a great Thomas Jefferson quote, posted by Elizabeth Edwards on Democratic Underground. A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that [...]
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Coolest Electoral Map Yet
Monday, 8 November 2004In the ongoing battle in the blogosphere to produce the coolest electoral map yet, I think we have a winner. What we have is a map that shows the intensity of the Bush/Kerry vote by color, by county, with the size of each county distorted to reflect its population. The only ways I can see [...]
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The End of the American Century?
Monday, 8 November 2004Paul Craig Roberts, who has a list of “conservative” credentials as long as my arm (senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, assistant sectratary of the Treasury under Reagan, former distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute, etc., etc.), declares that the reelection of GWB marks the end [...]
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