It seems that we are still very far from a paperless world: WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. It doesn’t stand for What You See Is What They Get. What you see is almost always not what they get. Geoffrey Pullum recounts the experiences that led to the supervisor of the [...]
Mike has taken the electoral vote map from Electoral-Vote.com and modified it so that states are as large as their number of electoral votes: Certainly gives you a different perspective!
Last week, Kevin Drum wrote: Mark Kleiman thinks there are a few little seedlings of evidence that people are growing up and talking more honestly about race these days — and John Kerry is one of them. I hope he’s right. I wondered, what do Mark and Kevin mean by “talking more honestly about race”? [...]