I have various friends through whom I follow on Facebook closely due in part to politics. The most obvious reason to do so is that they have something insightful to say, and sometimes that’s why, but there’s another subset I… Continue Reading
Florida has the most with five. Texas has four. California and Michigan have three. Arizona, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Utah have two. Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin all have one. The data… Continue Reading
I thought about writing a (more significant) post, but there’s not much I can touch upon that James Joyner didn’t here. There’s no single snippit that I want to excerpt, so I would recommend going over and reading the whole… Continue Reading
Morat20 makes the following observation: Are whites being discriminated against? Are they likely to be in the future? It wasn’t skin color that led to affirmative action — it was a legacy of racism and flat-out denied oppurtunity. Offhand, should… Continue Reading
Apparently, we have *a lot* of Isabellas on the way. Quite a few Sophias, Avas, and Olivias. What’s really interesting about this list is how much naming is apparently a national phenomenon. I would not at all have been surprised… Continue Reading
Sarah Palin would approve of my home town. Though I wasn’t here in 2008, I would be surprised if she weren’t at least somewhat popular here. Since moving here, I have been contacted by Arbitron once, and Nielson twice now.… Continue Reading
Back in high school, I was online-approached by a guy named Vertigo for a favor. To say that Vertigo and I didn’t get along would be an understatement. He was a manipulative cretin. A bisexual one. My thoughts and experiences… Continue Reading
Oops: Inmates at the Milner Ridge jail were able to watch clear-as-day commercials on an explicit channel that was otherwise blocked by their satellite TV service, Justice Minister Andrew Swan said Thursday. “Apparently, on that blocked channel, there were periodic… Continue Reading
For once, I won’t go into the entire story, but the four day adventure of my trip back to Genesis actually got started the night before, when I determined that I was not going to be able to get my… Continue Reading
Three of the first ten presidents had or did this. It’s only true of one president since, and he wasn’t even elected.