a fear of our own mortality guides many of our political choices without our ever realizing it.
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Tag: politics
Florida Real Estate
The state is exposing itself to tremendous financial risk in the event of a large-scale disaster. Unlike private companies, which can seek reinsurance on the global market where risk is less concentrated, the state would have to go to its own taxpayers if a huge storm struck.
moral hazard on the scale of a state. florida is totally fucked.
Romney Internet Censorship
YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other,” Romney explained.
Earmarks are winning
8 months after Democrats vowed to shine light on the dark art of “earmarking” money for pet projects, the new visibility has only intensified the competition for projects by letting each member see exactly how many everyone else is receiving.
W’s grandpappy planned fascist coup of USA
the asshole streak runs deep in that family.
Prison Town, USA
California’s corrections industry, in particular – which now receives more state funding than does California’s university system – is “hungry for space, new guards and low visibility,” and so distant, rarely visited towns like Susanville seem perfect
Farcical debates
As for these being questions from ’average’ people, I find this unlikely. Leaving aside the skewed age demographic, these aren’t questions from people too poor to have the computer equipment. These aren’t questions from people who work 2 jobs, just to make ends meet and who don’t have the time to create such videos.
CNN is filtering the questions and therefore doubts that “tough questions” make it through. “This isn’t politics, this is entertainment,. All that’s different from entertainment offerings in the past is we’ve exchanged the Ziegfield girls for YouTube sock puppets.”
Trash Talk
Incensed by the most recent arrest of an alleged drug dealer, a Cleveland politician wrote the perp a scathing, profanity-filled letter that referred to the man as a “crack dealing piece of trash” who should “go to jail or the cemetery soon.” In a July 12 letter, a copy of which you’ll find below, Councilman Michael Polensek, 57, tore into Arsenio Winston, 18, after learning of the teenager’s arrest earlier this month on a felony drug trafficking rap.
wow
Neocon Cruise
A red-faced man who looks like an egg with a moustache glued on grumbles, ” If the Germans think they can take responsibility for the world, I don’t care about German courts. Bomb them.” I begin to witter on about the Pinochet precedent, and Kate snaps, “Treating Don Rumsfeld like Pinochet is disgusting.” Egg Man pounds his fist on the table: ” Treating Pinochet like that is disgusting. Pinochet is a hero. He saved Chile.”
filed under delusional, religion
Congress Needs Git
Most people don’t get outraged when they hear that a clause has been inserted into a bill but that no one can say who inserted it. Those of us who use version control systems get outraged, because we think: why don’t they just check the commit logs?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 