Month: June 2012

Your Martian open thread

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by Doctor Science liberal japonicus seems to have been eaten by a grue again, so I’ll do the open thread. I can’t see Ray Bradbury’s death this week as a tragedy: he lived an extremely long, fruitful, and honored life, shaping the imaginations of millions of people, myself included. The fact that his death occurred … Read more

I Don’t Like the Result, So Let’s Make the Whole System Worse!

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–by Sebastian Over at the legal blog, Balkinization, Magliocca seems concerned about the possibility of the Supreme Court striking down the individual mandate of the Health Care bill, so he proposes a counter measure which on about a moment’s thought seems highly dangerous if legitimized: In the absence of a line-item veto, legislatures can coerce … Read more

Pollworker report

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by Doctor Science Pollworkers: 3. Voters: 32. Number of voters who showed up for 2008 General Election: 503. Prediction: We will be *really* busy in November. Books read: 2.3 1. American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan. I heard about the book Ta-Nehisi Coates. TNC said: Morgan’s basic contention, one which I increasingly find … Read more

Pre-Primary Tab Dump

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by Doctor Science I’m a pollworker tomorrow, so I have to go to bed at 10 tonight and get up at 4:30am, to be at the polling place by 5:15. Here are my tabs, in lieu of an actual post: Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era | Matt Richel, New York Times: part … Read more