Tuesday, November 1, 2016

In retrospect, it's surprising we don't use more sewage metaphors

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A few stray thoughts on the proper flow of information (and misinformation) and a functional organization. I know we've been through all...

Is this Clinton story becoming a Comey story?

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I grabbed this screen capture from the Washington Post on Saturday, immediately after the announcement. Comey was catching considerable...
Monday, October 31, 2016

R.I.P. Zacherley (September 26, 1918 – October 27, 2016)

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He almost made it to Halloween. A bit of history from Wikipedia: In October 1957, Screen Gems released a bundle of old Universa...

Happy Halloween from the Mercury Theatre

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The debut production of the Mercury Theatre of the Air, Dracula. And, of course, the Mercury production of War of the Worlds. ...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Not so much being asked to dig your own grave, as being charged for the shovel

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This appears to be our busy season so I'll just pass on the following from Charles Pierce without comment: The indefatigable David S...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Growing up in Arkansas...

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Tracts from the Alamo Church and Chick Publications were ubiquitous. The latter bore a remarkable resemblance in both format and style to...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Following up on "Calling all political science grad students"

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From back in August : Consider definitely non-purple states with open primaries. We can often get the situation we have now in California ...

Why I no longer wait to post speculations on the campaign

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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Trump as stressor -- yet another evangelical edition

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I've been arguing for a while that the evangelical movement has largely been gutted of its once central religious aspects and left with ...

Aspect Dominance or just reporters loking for a man biting a dog? -- repost and update

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[Remember back in the summer when the bedwetting faction was busy coming up with reasons why Trump was unstoppable? One of the favorite scen...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

When we finally get around to discussing range-of-data issues

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From Josh Marshall [emphasis added]   There may be an additional factor as well. Presidential campaigns, national parties and individual...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Breaking the laugh barrier

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One of the many ironies of the Trump campaign is the way that it has seriously underlined so many of the journalistic conventions that made...
Monday, October 24, 2016

An open letter to Brian Beutler and Ed Kilgore

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Dear Brian and Ed, I am a big fan of your work but, after having read your recent pieces on the still unlikely but potentially devastating e...

[I had a really funny title for this post, honest]

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But it played off of a Red Meat cartoon and I can't find the original online. This one has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but sin...
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Saying your opponents won't show up to vote may work as unintentional reverse psychology

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[I wrote this Saturday with the intention of posting it Monday, but events are moving rapidly so I decided to bump it up.] A popular s...