politics
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Causes, Effects…
The American Prospect has an article detailing the “Chasm” between Blue Connecticut and Red Oklahoma. The tl; dr takeaway is best expressed graphically. From the article: CT and OK went from having identical life expectancies in 1959, to a gap that started back in the very early 1970s and continues today. Virtually all of this Continue reading
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Friday Tidbits
Home, sick. (As opposed to “Home, working’). Currently in that ‘can’t do much yet, can’t sleep any more, either’ phase. So, a few bored Friday afternoon tidbits over a slowly-eaten hard boiled egg. Looks like both Antarctica and the Sahara are “greening”. One due to general warming, the other due to unusual changes in rainfall Continue reading
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Walz/Vance Debate
Vance presented as a slick one-man focus group. He even managed to scan as A Real Boy at times, as opposed to the unholy Yarvinite Egregore he is in reality (and online, and at rallies, and probably everywhere else). Very good at lying, but not at convincing. Not so much a Gish-Gallop as a Gish-Avalanche. Continue reading
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Wacky Schemes
RFK Jr, Kennedy scion, friend to Billionaires, would-be Election Spoiler and future Trivial Pursuit question apparently had a wacky scheme to jam up voting machines in Wisconsin by forcing the State to cover his name on the ballot with stickers. Stickers which would then gum up the voting machines, with the ensuing hilarity somehow leading Continue reading
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The Precipice Year: 2024
I really don’t want to end up writing long form political posts all the time. In fact, I deeply resent having to spend so much time following politics, at all. I dream of an America with a boring, boring Politics. But, in this era of the ‘Industrial Disinformation Complex’, one kind of has to become Continue reading
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