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I can’t believe I forgot to blog away on this one!
Yea for Bebe Zahara Benet.  The Tina Turner lioness wig and the spiderweb-of-pearls thing (what’s the real name for that?) clinched it for her before the end, I’m sure.  If you take kitsch and make it stunningly beautiful, you’ve nailed it.  In spite of her [...]

As much as I jump at any chance to point, ogle at or nudge my neighbor towards the train-wreck that keeps on platforming at the station (if I may mix metaphors) which is Sarah Palin, I can’t help but laugh a little at one angle of blogospheric outrage today.
Sarah Palin told an Alaska GOP dinner [...]

Continuing with my increasingly tangential nerd-a-thon re: population, here is a representation of the electoral college for the election of 2060, colored with the results of the 2008 election.  Each square is one vote (every state would have at least 3).

Obama’s 365-173 victory has become 323-215 because even with the Democrats’ converting 9 red states [...]

Maybe you’re like me and you thought the Bernie Madoff scandal was pretty much as cut-and-dried as things ever get.  You don’t have to be a Manichean or a Bush voter to conclude that Bernie Madoff is a terrible person and, while a lot of blame goes to the SEC and to the corrupt nature [...]

It’s sad when people look to the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market as some kind of validation for their opinion of what the government may have announced that morning.  If you think the prices of stocks act as sound barometers of prudent decision-making, you’re insane.
Lately, this can be attributed to Fox News’s tut-tutting about [...]

The Western US, that is.
This report from Pew shows how irreligious Americans are becoming, which is news that I welcome wholeheartedly. What’s especially interesting is how secular the Western US is. Aside from Utah, Colorado Springs and Orange County, CA, the western third of this country is a growing bastion of Godlessness.
I’m sure [...]

I speculated how long it would take for each state to double its population.  That was highly implausible, by my own admission, because the rates of growth are likely to change enormously–even though I used the average from 1980-2007.
To use the last year’s growth rate only is no less problematic, for obvious reasons.  Stuff changes.  [...]

The UN wants to formally decriminalize homosexuality, worldwide. When this issue last came up, the US was the only “Western” country not to go along.  That’s right, even though sodomy and fellatio and lots of fun things haven’t been crimes anywhere in the US since 2003, the Bush Administration wouldn’t sign on, even [...]