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politics
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autographs, journal, politics
Savage Mules
Dennis Perrin, whether he knows it or not, is in contention with Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi in a contest of nuclear indignance–which of the two will assume the mantle of America’s clear-thinking, hyper-independent conscience, left unshouldered since Hunter S. Thompson’s slide into obscurity, and lamentable demise?Taibbi has the lead. He occupies a chair close to […]
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politics
fivethirtyeight
The boys at fivethirtyeight.com will be arriving tonight, using my basement and office as a base of operations for their excellent work crunching myriad, maddeningly various polls. I’m particularly impressed by their use of sophisticated modeling and applied probability theories. You wonder what cell phone users, rather than Luddite septuagenarians, would say if polled? This […]
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politics
Perhaps Kentucky Should Also Be Expelled From the Union
I am not ashamed to say these are my people. Not ashamed of where they live, nor the wear on their faces, nor the fact that they have to drive four-wheelers up the mountains to their homes because cars won’t make the grade. I am ashamed the only news these folks apparently have access […]
