Laurence Verga, racist.
The Daily Progress reports on Republican candidate for congress Laurence Verga’s response to the question of what the biggest threat to U.S. national security is: Verga said the biggest threat is the Americans who voted the Obama administration into office. “That was political correctness gone awry,” Verga said. There are two gems in here. The [...]
National Journal Agrees: Perriello’s a centrist.
National Journal’s annual congressional vote rankings are out, and I think it’s interesting that all of their math has simply confirmed what GovTrack.us already demonstrated: that Rep. Tom Perriello is a solidly centrist member of congress. He votes more liberally 47.2% of the time, and conservatively 52.8% of the time. In fact, as it turns [...]
links for 2010-02-26
London Times: Luxembourg-sized iceberg threatens weather chaos after split This Albemarle County-sized chunk was knocked loose by another enormous iceberg. The potential environmental impact from this one calving turns out to be considerable: colder winters in the northern hemisphere, loss of sea life from deoxygination, and harm to a big colony of penguins nearby. (tags: [...]
links for 2010-02-25
Jesse Brown: The Luddite I'm just bookmarking this to read later, but with Boing Boing describing it as "a brief, comedic monologue about the people who expect us to fix their computers while they patronize us and ignore our explanations," I'm looking forward to it. (tags: humor computers) Information is Beautiful: Snake Oil I like [...]
The fig leaf comes off.
The next major Virginia political event is redistricting. Officially, this will be done by the legislature next January, but in reality, incumbents are already measuring for the drapes. Although the governor talked a good game about bipartisan redistricting during the election, I’d bet dollars to donuts that he was lying. I see no way around [...]
links for 2010-02-23
CleanText.org Paste in huge piles of ASCII text, receive a cleaned-up version—double hyphens converted to em dashes, inch marks converted to quotation marks, foot marks converted to apostrophes, and presumably some other nice transformations take place. Handy. (tags: ascii writing text) Think Progress: After complaining that health care bills were too long, Boehner now complains [...]
Bob Marshall, alienating his base.
Well, Del. Bob Marshall is in trouble again. Media outlets across the country are covering the remarks he made at a press conference he held last Thursday about defunding Planned Parenthood: The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first [...]
links for 2010-02-22
Wikipedia: Red Dawn (2010 film) "Red Dawn" is being remade, due out in November. Fun fact: The original was the first movie to receive the PG-13 rating, and was, in terms of deaths per minute, the most violent film ever made, at the time of its release. (tags: film) Wikipedia: Jupiter Jupiter is a planet [...]
Tom Perriello, demonstrably centrist.
In looking to see what other websites rank partisanship, I see that GovTrack.us ranks Tom Perriello as a centrist, just barely on the Democratic side of the spectrum, based on a bill sponsorship analysis like Richmond Sunlight’s. Interesting. GovTrack.us is, by the way, a great site—Joshua Tauberer does a fine job with it.
General Assembly Twitter aggregator.
Here’s a fun new Richmond Sunlight feature: a Twitter aggregator. At a glance, see what the General Assembly is talking about.
links for 2010-02-19
New York Times: Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right It has become popular to assert that teabaggers aren't as crazy as they look. Look no further than David Barstow's feature article on them to see strong evidence to the contrary. These people are out of their *minds*. The only thing unifying them is [...]
Sen. Hurt is, in fact, the most partisan member of the senate.
I just finished adding a new feature to Richmond Sunlight—the ability to sort through legislators by a variety of attributes like location, race, sex, year they started in office, etc.—and when I was done, I found a bug. For some reason, my code was listing Sen. Robert Hurt as the most partisan Republican in the [...]
links for 2010-02-18
Cross Section of Depth of Atlantic Ocean A simple diagram, illustrating the depth of the Atlantic relative to its width. It might seem enormous, but, in scale, it seems awfully delicate. (tags: ocean map nature) Yahoo: Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site The Yahoo Developer Network provides this great list of ways that [...]
links for 2010-02-17
Slate: Expiration dates mean very little. You know your food has gone bad when it looks, smells, or tastes bad. The number on the package is basically just a guess. (tags: food health) PolitiFact: Two of three convicted in military commissions have been released Of all of the terrorists brought before military courts, a grand [...]
links for 2010-02-16
Philadelphia Inquirer: Another case of TSA overkill A policeman, his wife, and their four-year-old son are taking a trip to Disney World. The physically disabled kid has only just started to walk, although he requires leg braces to do so. The TSA says that he cannot get on the plane and go to Disney World [...]
YA5DR declares candidacy.
Scott Schultz, of Albemarle County, is seeking the Republican nomination to run against Tom Perriello. He’s a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (Shire of Isenfir, which I gather is the local chapter), where he has the rank of Knight Marshal, and prefers to be known as “Lord Philip ap Griffith.” He’s running because [...]
links for 2010-02-15
Blood Lamp Designer Mike Thompson has devised this light, powered by human blood. It can be used just once. (tags: environment energy art) Freedom Need to work on your Mac, free of distractions like e-mail and the whole of the internet? This free application will totally disable networking on your computer for whatever period of [...]
Steele connects with the middle class.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele in a debate with Harold Ford Jr., on the topic of taxation of the wealthiest Americans: Trust me, after taxes, a million dollars is not a lot of money. That should be the Republican Party’s slogan.
Somebody explain σ2 to the RPV.
From the so-stupid-it’s-funny files: So come August, when it’s really hot, does that mean that the RPV is wrong? Remember, kids: the plural of “anecdote” is not “fact.”
links for 2010-02-04
ABC News: Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book Palin's PAC spent $63,000 buying copies of her own book shortly after it was released. So her PAC collects money from supporters, uses that money to buy an enormous number of books, which she earns royalties off of, thus allowing her to pocket those [...]
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