As could be expected, Jon Stewart had a lot to say about Tuesday’s debate. In this segment, Jon Stewart discusses some of the disagreements between Obama and Romney, and has fun with the “binders full of women” meme. [Read more…]
Although I started blogging on January 26, 2005, I joined the FreethoughtBlogs network just this year, on January 10. I noticed that yesterday, I had reached the one million mark in page views since I came here.
Of course, that is small compared to many other blogs but I am personally very gratified by the level of interest. Thanks to all those who have visited and also to those who have taken part in the discussions in the comments. It has been fun and I hope to continue the relationship for a long time.
Living in Ohio, I am sick of hearing that we are a crucial swing state and that “no Republican has even won the presidency without winning Ohio”. [Read more…]
For reasons that I cannot comprehend, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is seen as a sage observer of the world whose insights are worth paying attention to, by people whom you would think should know better. [Read more…]
Conservationists in Kenya got a report that a baby elephant had fallen into a well. The problem was how to get it out with just a rope and an off-road vehicle. [Read more…]
Fellow Freethought blogger Greta Christina has been having a run of unfortunate setbacks in her life recently. Her father just died after a long illness and then almost immediately afterwards she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer that requires surgery and will cause her to curtail much of her writing and speaking (which is the source of her income) during the period of surgery and recovery.
Greta is, typically, hanging tough and being upbeat about her situation but she is also realistic that at this time she needs help so she is reluctantly holding a fundraiser to help tide her over just during the period of her treatment, until she can get back to writing and speaking full time again.
Any help that you can give her will be greatly appreciated.
I wrote in an earlier post today on national gerrymandering of electoral districts and how the redistricting process that occurs following each census results in the winners of the most recent election controlling the process and gerrymandering the electoral boundaries to entrench a bias in their favor for future elections. [Read more…]
While most of the attention focuses on the presidential race, over at the Princeton Election Consortium Sam Wang has an interesting analysis of the data on the relationship of the national vote for the two major parties in each biennial election to the number of seats that they ended up holding in the House of Representatives. [Read more…]