Neat!

I love this, even if it’s too conservative when it comes to preserving existing state boundaries.  Why is Nevada so recognizable?  It would be better to see this map reflect concentrated populations only; coastal Washington and Oregon together, for example.   To see one enormous state covering most of eastern Montana, both Dakota and Wyoming [...]

It is entirely possible, in 2009, to be a very nice person and at the same time to hate or fear gay people.  I get it; we’re scary and weird and all that.  If you grew up with a certain code of beliefs and never met any faggots until they became ubiquitous on the Teevee [...]

This is so supremely fucked up!
Anyone who reads this blogs knows that there absolutely must be more abortions.  Way more.  Of course, condoms and the rhythm method are great, too, and so are gay indoctrination and recruitment, but above all else, the birth rate must be coaxed down without coercion.  Ideally, a scientific minimum of [...]

I wonder what Glenn Beck et al would say if the government literally got bigger?
This is a great idea.  An ever-growing population requires actively shrinking the distance between legislator and constituent.  If each member of Congress served half as many people, that would reduce the ability of concentrated, wealthy interests to purchase seats. It could [...]

The state with the prettiest name is also the state most reliant on late capitalism’s boundless growth for its survival.  It is the state with no income tax that advertises its own website on its license plates (at least, some of its license plates.  It has so many varieties the Legislature had to pass a [...]

Yesterday (July 1) was the day the Census Bureau uses as its benchmark for its 2009 population estimates, which are obviously the last before the actual Census.  At this instant, the estimated population is 306,817,884.  On July 1, 2008 it was 303,824,640.  That’s an increase of 2,993,244 people in a year and a day, or [...]

Without wading into an area in which I’m completely unqualified to mouth off, except to say that I find it totes fascinating, I’m increasingly bearish–and increasingly sanguine about my bearishness–on human beings surviving into the 22nd century without major, mostly negative changes.  An Islamist-controlled nuclear Pakistan would be a really bad thing for the future [...]

The New Yorker made a great point this week.  Why would anyone think the US would be anything but better off if any state that seceded once already weren’t allowed to do it again?  If Austin were divided like Berlin (east and west in that city reversed, of course) and New Orleans became Freistadt Danz(b)ig-easy, [...]

By population.
I’m so annoyed at Comcast for sort of stealing my favorite palette of colors and the best font that ever was, Helvetica.  (Although I’m sure it’s a tiny variation on it).  But this word cloud is totally comcastic!