Category Archives: Politics/Policy

So there’s a lot of yammering out there about OWS, and what it means, or doesn’t mean, and even some opinions that OWS protestors are less grateful than a panhandler, and perhaps more immoral, too, since they are capable, presumably, … Continue reading →

Observed:                 No comment required, really.

The single most common misconception about [the Texas governor] is that he has been running a large state for the past six years. Texas has what is known in political science circles as “the weak-governor system.” You may think this … Continue reading →

Via “The Marketplace Morning Report:” JEREMY HOBSON: Global stock markets are still excited about what the Federal Reserve said yesterday afternoon. That interest rates for banks that borrow from the Fed will remain near zero percent for the next two … Continue reading →

Pretty sure if John Rawls asserts a good economy should benefit this at the bottom at least as much as those at the top (latest booms haven’t), then he would also assert that working our way out of a downturn … Continue reading →

Via NPR: Raising the debt ceiling “simply authorizes Treasury to pay the bills Congress chose to incur when it passed years worth of spending increases and tax cuts that are now law.” So Congress voted for programs and tax cuts … Continue reading →

I don’t know how people can hear stories like This American Life’s Game Changer: PROLOGUE. Host Ira Glass tells the stories of two professors, each making a calculation that no one had made before. One gets acclaim. One ends up … Continue reading →

Absolutely ecstatic to find out that our possible new home will be in Mike McCaul’s district. I thought I was leaving good old CD10 behind. Also – absolutely chicken shit of the GOP to stop at just five districts in … Continue reading →

OK. So this is from the 2008 budget [link to spreadsheets], but I heard Boehner wants to cut spending to 2008 levels, so maybe using the 2008 budget is more appropriate it might have first appeared. Rationale for cuts included: … Continue reading →

I believe these to be accurate enough for you to find your closest early voting location – any omissions are my fault. If the location is wrong…I blame Google Earth.