My family finally moved from Pittsburgh to North Carolina. That means I am happy. It also means I am staring at 100+ cardboard boxes to unpack and re-sort. So blogging will be light. But even as it is light, continue to call the Senate: When you call a Senate office, ask to speak to the …
Nixonland
Tell me the story please
I’m guilty of my daily schradenfreude as I fire up Twitter every morning before my coffee for tweets like this: Last 72 hrs:1 Russian hacker arrested in Spain.2 Page had FISA warrant on him. 3 Manafort received $1.2M payment from pro-Putin stooge. https://t.co/FlPPhXkr6R — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) April 12, 2017 Michael Reynolds, in comments …
A Prediction for the SCOTUS and the next GOP trifecta
Let’s assume that Hillary Clinton appoints at least one new net liberal to the Supreme Court during her term in office. In that scenario, the minimal composition would be five center left jurists, one idiosyncratic moderate conservative, one corporate conservative who has a fascination with “sovereign dignitude” and a pair of justices who think Lochner …
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Battle Flag Acquisition Strategies
Early this morning, I was doing some research on the endurance of corporate culture, studying how sometimes the spirit of a smaller, acquired firm can permeate the larger, acquiring organization. It’s not unusual for a big behemoth to acquire a scrappy smaller company solely for the purpose of infusing the moribund giant with fresh blood, …
Gas and nuts
The ‘nut’ in a family budget is the bare minimal amount of money that has to go out the door every period to minimize negative consequences. It is the short term mostly fixed costs. This concept of the nut is very important in thinking about presidential popularity and gas prices as I don’t …
Water Flowing Underground
My only quarrel with Rick Perlstein is that he’s 3% high in his estimate: The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy’s day; I’d estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy—they see themselves as …
Obviously, he needs the long-form vault copy “original” of his birth certificate, certified, with the raised seal
Back to North Carolina again, with new developments in the Gov. Pat McCrory signing a Republican-backed bill this week making sweeping changes to the state’s voting laws, local elections boards in two college towns made moves that could make it harder for students to vote. The Pasquotank County Board of Elections on Tuesday barred an …