Ok, I'm still here. Senate Republicans vote 40-0 against re-establishing PAYGO rules. So much for being against the deficit. Hopefully the Democrats point this out to the American people.
"Four Republican senators who opposed the measure on Thursday voted for nearly an identical measure in 2006. That list includes Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both moderates from Maine, George Voinovich, the retiring Senator from Ohio, and John McCain, the party's standard-bearer in the 2008 presidential elections."
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Whole Foods Employee Discounts Based on BMI
Whole Foods to give greater employee discounts to workers with lower BMI, cholesterol.
"That's the message behind Whole Foods' drive to cut its health care costs by offering fatter employee discounts to workers who are in tip-top shape. The pricey grocery chain will give 30% discounts to those who don't smoke and have low blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index (BMI) rates, says CEO John Mackey...Those showing "platinum" health will earn 30% discounts; "gold" gets 27% and silver 25%, while "bronze" wins 22% off."
The article includes complaints that this is discriminating against those that aren't "naturally thin". I'm not sure how I feel, the incentive part is good, but isn't it the overweight who need the greater discount?
"That's the message behind Whole Foods' drive to cut its health care costs by offering fatter employee discounts to workers who are in tip-top shape. The pricey grocery chain will give 30% discounts to those who don't smoke and have low blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index (BMI) rates, says CEO John Mackey...Those showing "platinum" health will earn 30% discounts; "gold" gets 27% and silver 25%, while "bronze" wins 22% off."
The article includes complaints that this is discriminating against those that aren't "naturally thin". I'm not sure how I feel, the incentive part is good, but isn't it the overweight who need the greater discount?
No Constitutional Right to Dance in the Jefferson Memorial
Remember the Woman Arrested for Dancing at the Jefferson Memorial (and more here) in April 2008?
A DC court has determined, there is no "constitutional right to engage in expressive dancing in the interior of the Jefferson Memorial". From reading the 26 page decision, she made some lame arguments.
A DC court has determined, there is no "constitutional right to engage in expressive dancing in the interior of the Jefferson Memorial". From reading the 26 page decision, she made some lame arguments.
Partisanship
I'm hearing a lot of post SOTU discussion about how in spite of all the bipartisan rhetoric on both sides, Obama has to figure out how to be successful with zero Republican votes, because he's not going to convince any of them to vote with him. Well if that's the case (and it probably is) then it will be difficult to get anything through the Senate.
They could change the Senate rules but probably not in time to make a difference for November and it could backfire on them anyway.
Instead I think he has to make their obstructionist strategy (which even Obama said might be a successful short-term strategy) backfire on them. If the Republicans block everything and November comes around, they're going to say the Democrats didn't do anything, blame them for the countries problems and say vote for change and vote Republican.
Instead the Democrats have to reframe that (and they aren't very good at this) to the Republicans are the reason nothing happened, they blocked things they like (tax cuts) and previously voted for, and even jobs creation packages and bank regulation. If you want change from the policies of the past vote for more Democrats to be able to get things done. Vote against the partisan stonewalling. And to make this effective, they need to demonstrate this throughout the year. I think Obama's speech was a good start to that, let's see if his policies continue. Either he gets things done or he wins more seats for the second half of his term (ok, I can dream for a little bit).
They could change the Senate rules but probably not in time to make a difference for November and it could backfire on them anyway.
Instead I think he has to make their obstructionist strategy (which even Obama said might be a successful short-term strategy) backfire on them. If the Republicans block everything and November comes around, they're going to say the Democrats didn't do anything, blame them for the countries problems and say vote for change and vote Republican.
Instead the Democrats have to reframe that (and they aren't very good at this) to the Republicans are the reason nothing happened, they blocked things they like (tax cuts) and previously voted for, and even jobs creation packages and bank regulation. If you want change from the policies of the past vote for more Democrats to be able to get things done. Vote against the partisan stonewalling. And to make this effective, they need to demonstrate this throughout the year. I think Obama's speech was a good start to that, let's see if his policies continue. Either he gets things done or he wins more seats for the second half of his term (ok, I can dream for a little bit).
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
State of the Union
I was too lazy to take notes during the speech. I thought it started a little slow, but ended up doing all the right things it needed to. He was talking straight. He backed up his Democratic initiatives, said he'd stand strong on them, said he'd be open to Republican ideas and offered lots of tax cuts that they didn't even applaud for (he even mentioned that once). He went after the banks and the Republicans also didn't applaud. Good luck with that. He also called out the Republicans on being obstructionist but framed it as a problem in all of Washington.
He even called out the Supreme Court on the Citizens United decision (of which I expect to have a long post about next week), saying "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections." and cameras caught Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing "that's not true". I think whether you agree with the First Amendment principles of the majority or not, Obama's statement is still clearly true.
Good speech, we'll see what comes of it.
He even called out the Supreme Court on the Citizens United decision (of which I expect to have a long post about next week), saying "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections." and cameras caught Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing "that's not true". I think whether you agree with the First Amendment principles of the majority or not, Obama's statement is still clearly true.
Good speech, we'll see what comes of it.
Colorizing Dinosaurs
Scientific American writes Colorizing Dinosaurs: Feather Pigments Reveal Appearance of Extinct Animals. "A new study, however, proposes some of the first cellular hints. Extrapolating from primitive pigment-giving organelles known as melanosomes (which contain the coloring compound melanin and are still prevalent in modern animals) that have been found in fossilized dinosaur feathers from the Cretaceous period, a research team paints a picture of dark wings and brightly striped reddish tails."
I Like the Graph
Universe Today reports Kepler Goes Fishing and Reels in Two KOI.
"By now you've probably heard about the first results from the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets. Five new exoplanet discoveries were announced recently at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Four of the five new planets are larger than Jupiter, about 1.4 times its radius, and they all have orbital periods around their host stars of 3-5 days. Kepler 4b, the oddball of that bunch is about the size of Neptune."
I just like this graphic:
"By now you've probably heard about the first results from the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets. Five new exoplanet discoveries were announced recently at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Four of the five new planets are larger than Jupiter, about 1.4 times its radius, and they all have orbital periods around their host stars of 3-5 days. Kepler 4b, the oddball of that bunch is about the size of Neptune."
I just like this graphic:
iPad
So Apple announced the iPad. I think I did pretty good on my guesses.
It's got the 10" screen, wifi, 3G is an add-on, almost full size virtual keyboard and more multi-touch stuff. It syncs with iTunes but doesn't stream. There is an updated iWork made for it and you can buy the apps separately. You can read documents on it, in portrait mode, on the device.
The iBooks app and iBookstore is new and about what I expected. No mention of a popup dictionary. And I'm not sure I like the page metaphor of books extended to this. I'd rather have continuous scrolling, there's no reason to continue to live with that limitation of paper.
There's no facing camera for iChat, I predict version 2.0. They didn't mention any remote apps but I suspect they'll come later like they did for the iPhone. No updated iLife but the iPhone photo app did get rewritten.
It's basically a big iPhone. The home screen looks a little barren. There's lots of spacing between icons and it has fewer apps than an iPhone, missing the Phone, Messages, Calculator, Stocks and Weather apps.
The price is pretty amazing, being half of the expectations for the low end version. The high end version is $170 lower than the $999 predictions. The 3G is optional and the data rates are cheap and no contract is amazing. I would have loved to have witnessed those negotiations. Though six different models does seem to be a lot for an Apple product.
They're trying to roll out an additional device to own. This doesn't replace a computer (you sync to one) and it's not pocket size like an iPod or iPhone. But it is a nice living room device and for some travel. With the new version of iWork maybe they're going for business travelers but I don't see that sticking much. The closest thing to it is a Kindle and it's not at all in the same league. It will be interesting to see how many books are in the iBookstore. It also I think goes for those people that have a netbook as an additional machine, but not those that use one as their primary machine because of price.
I wasn't expecting the accessories. The dock made sense if I had thought about it. I didn't expect their keyboard dock. I always thought the bluetooth keyboard would be paired with it. The case that converts to a stand looks great.
I'm curious to play with one (in 60 days). I might be fine with the wifi only model and would probably get the 32GB model. It would be great if you could tether it to an iPhone to use it's 3G while traveling. That might be my rationalization to not wait for the 2nd generation. :)
Update: The newspaper app sounds interesting. It didn't seem to support flash. A hulu app sounds like a need. It's SD though it can do 720p in H.264. With a connector it can support 1024x768 on a monitor.
It's got the 10" screen, wifi, 3G is an add-on, almost full size virtual keyboard and more multi-touch stuff. It syncs with iTunes but doesn't stream. There is an updated iWork made for it and you can buy the apps separately. You can read documents on it, in portrait mode, on the device.
The iBooks app and iBookstore is new and about what I expected. No mention of a popup dictionary. And I'm not sure I like the page metaphor of books extended to this. I'd rather have continuous scrolling, there's no reason to continue to live with that limitation of paper.
There's no facing camera for iChat, I predict version 2.0. They didn't mention any remote apps but I suspect they'll come later like they did for the iPhone. No updated iLife but the iPhone photo app did get rewritten.
It's basically a big iPhone. The home screen looks a little barren. There's lots of spacing between icons and it has fewer apps than an iPhone, missing the Phone, Messages, Calculator, Stocks and Weather apps.
The price is pretty amazing, being half of the expectations for the low end version. The high end version is $170 lower than the $999 predictions. The 3G is optional and the data rates are cheap and no contract is amazing. I would have loved to have witnessed those negotiations. Though six different models does seem to be a lot for an Apple product.
They're trying to roll out an additional device to own. This doesn't replace a computer (you sync to one) and it's not pocket size like an iPod or iPhone. But it is a nice living room device and for some travel. With the new version of iWork maybe they're going for business travelers but I don't see that sticking much. The closest thing to it is a Kindle and it's not at all in the same league. It will be interesting to see how many books are in the iBookstore. It also I think goes for those people that have a netbook as an additional machine, but not those that use one as their primary machine because of price.
I wasn't expecting the accessories. The dock made sense if I had thought about it. I didn't expect their keyboard dock. I always thought the bluetooth keyboard would be paired with it. The case that converts to a stand looks great.
I'm curious to play with one (in 60 days). I might be fine with the wifi only model and would probably get the 32GB model. It would be great if you could tether it to an iPhone to use it's 3G while traveling. That might be my rationalization to not wait for the 2nd generation. :)
Update: The newspaper app sounds interesting. It didn't seem to support flash. A hulu app sounds like a need. It's SD though it can do 720p in H.264. With a connector it can support 1024x768 on a monitor.
Create good queries in Spotlight
Came across this old article today, Create good queries in Spotlight. I do use the keywords searches pretty often and I wished I used the metadata searches more often. OS X needs a better UI for entering and maintaining metadata.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Spending Freeze
Last night the White House leaked that Obama will announce a government spending freeze. Rachel Maddow had Jared Bernstein (Biden's economic advisor) on and pummeled him about this. We're in a recession, you don't cut spending, that's Hooverism and what got FDR in trouble in 1937. Bernstein commented on some details and made it sound better. He has comments posted today.
Some people today are going off the deep end, like Paul Krugman, Obama Liquidates Himself, but then he heard more and doesn't seem so worried about it. "What I hear from bat-squeaks is that it’s not a big deal on economic substance, and that admin officials hope it will clear the way for some modest job-creation efforts."
Brad DeLong adds to this in
Ezra Klein puts it in some perspective, The Obama administration loses the deficit -- and the spending -- argument. "But you can't look at this as anything less than a tremendous defeat for the Obama administration. It's not the policy itself. The freeze locks in a post-stimulus, and potentially post-jobs-bill, level of spending. It's not terribly onerous. But it's also the administration's white flag on the argument that the deficit must be understood as a health-care reform problem rather than a taxes and spending problem. This was their most audacious effort to change the way Americans think, and it didn't work. For all the effort Democrats put into building a health-care bill that cuts the deficit, a full 60 percent of Americans think (pdf) the legislation increases the deficit. Only 15 percent think it's a deficit reducer."
In fact, apparently the Senate healthcare bill is very good at cutting the deficit. "The health care bill before the Senate would cut costs and reform health-care delivery more than any piece of legislation in American history, White House budget director Peter Orszag declared on Wednesday. "The bottom line is the bill that is currently on the Senate floor contains more cost containment and delivery system reforms in its current form than any bill that has ever been considered on the Senate floor period," the Office of Management and Budget director told reporters during a conference organized by the publication Health Affairs."
Meanwhile the liberal blogosphere is going nuts. The Hotline has a summary as does Andrew Sulivan and Brad DeLong can't find anyone (on the left or right) that likes it.
Some people today are going off the deep end, like Paul Krugman, Obama Liquidates Himself, but then he heard more and doesn't seem so worried about it. "What I hear from bat-squeaks is that it’s not a big deal on economic substance, and that admin officials hope it will clear the way for some modest job-creation efforts."
Brad DeLong adds to this in
Ezra Klein puts it in some perspective, The Obama administration loses the deficit -- and the spending -- argument. "But you can't look at this as anything less than a tremendous defeat for the Obama administration. It's not the policy itself. The freeze locks in a post-stimulus, and potentially post-jobs-bill, level of spending. It's not terribly onerous. But it's also the administration's white flag on the argument that the deficit must be understood as a health-care reform problem rather than a taxes and spending problem. This was their most audacious effort to change the way Americans think, and it didn't work. For all the effort Democrats put into building a health-care bill that cuts the deficit, a full 60 percent of Americans think (pdf) the legislation increases the deficit. Only 15 percent think it's a deficit reducer."
In fact, apparently the Senate healthcare bill is very good at cutting the deficit. "The health care bill before the Senate would cut costs and reform health-care delivery more than any piece of legislation in American history, White House budget director Peter Orszag declared on Wednesday. "The bottom line is the bill that is currently on the Senate floor contains more cost containment and delivery system reforms in its current form than any bill that has ever been considered on the Senate floor period," the Office of Management and Budget director told reporters during a conference organized by the publication Health Affairs."
Meanwhile the liberal blogosphere is going nuts. The Hotline has a summary as does Andrew Sulivan and Brad DeLong can't find anyone (on the left or right) that likes it.
Jim Bopp
digby writes Hail Bopp.
"Who is James Bopp, you ask? Well, that's very interesting. He's the lawyer who put together the Citizens United case that just unleashed corporate cash into our system."
"He's a far right activist lawyer who's developing these election cases in this era of right wing judiciary dominance, while simultaneously working within the Republican party to ensure that the big money that's newly freed is spent on strictly approved conservative initiatives. He's a one man wrecking crew."
"Who is James Bopp, you ask? Well, that's very interesting. He's the lawyer who put together the Citizens United case that just unleashed corporate cash into our system."
"He's a far right activist lawyer who's developing these election cases in this era of right wing judiciary dominance, while simultaneously working within the Republican party to ensure that the big money that's newly freed is spent on strictly approved conservative initiatives. He's a one man wrecking crew."
The sanctity of military spending
Glenn Greenwald tackles The sanctity of military spending.
"The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously."
"The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."
He also points to recent headlines that al Qaeda wants to attack us with WMDs and that (sarcastically) we need a strong military budget to deter them. I wish he had spelled out that of course they attacked us with our own planes when our military budget many times theres.
"The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously."
"The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."
He also points to recent headlines that al Qaeda wants to attack us with WMDs and that (sarcastically) we need a strong military budget to deter them. I wish he had spelled out that of course they attacked us with our own planes when our military budget many times theres.
Q&A With Simon Johnson On Financial Reform
The Atlantic Business Channel has a Q&A With Simon Johnson On Financial Reform.
Make Them Filibuster, Maybe
Balinization writes about Make Them Filibuster. He points out some other senates rules that make changing back not so attractive. I'm not sure I'm convinced. Something has to change, and I'm all for making Republicans have to explain why they're blocking things, though I guess it's more important that Democrats explain why Republican arguments (at least those presented so far) are silly.
The Abdulmutallab Dots that Should Have Been Connected
Bruce Schneier writes about The Abdulmutallab Dots that Should Have Been Connected mostly pointing to a posting by Kevin Drum refuting many of the assumed facts.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Barney Frank seeks end to Fannie, Freddie
Barney Frank seeks end to Fannie, Freddie.
"‘The committee will be recommending abolishing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their current form and coming up with a whole new system of housing finance,’ said Frank during a finance committee hearing Friday, according to Bloomberg News. ‘That’s the approach, rather than a piecemeal one.’"
"‘The committee will be recommending abolishing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their current form and coming up with a whole new system of housing finance,’ said Frank during a finance committee hearing Friday, according to Bloomberg News. ‘That’s the approach, rather than a piecemeal one.’"
Bill Moyers Journal This Week
Every week my TiVo records Bill Moyers Journal. About 10-20% of the time I recognize the guests and am thrilled to see someone interview them. The rest of the time I've never heard of the guest and then I watch and wonder where have these people been and why isn't more of the media like this?
This week he had Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Eric Alterman discuss Obama's first year. It's easily the most intelligent and reasoned conversation I've seen (or had) on the topic.
Then he had Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson talk about their new book Who Turned Out the Lights? "Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis". They framed the issue in the most accessible way I've ever heard.
The links above have both the video and transcripts of the segments. Watch or read them.
This week he had Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Eric Alterman discuss Obama's first year. It's easily the most intelligent and reasoned conversation I've seen (or had) on the topic.
Then he had Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson talk about their new book Who Turned Out the Lights? "Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis". They framed the issue in the most accessible way I've ever heard.
The links above have both the video and transcripts of the segments. Watch or read them.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Electoral College Reform
"This Electoral Reform Map redivides the territory of the United States into 50 bodies of equal size. The 2000 Census records a population of 81,421,906 for the United States. The states ranged in population from 493,782 to 33,871,648.1 In this map, new states have formed, all with equal populations of roughly 5,617,000."
Can't say I like the idea but the map is interesting.
Can't say I like the idea but the map is interesting.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The Apple Guessing Game
David Pogue plays The Apple Guessing Game about the iTablet. I mostly agree with him but here are my thoughts.
I'd like a tablet sized device for around the house. I want it mostly to consume media (music, videos, documents, web surfing). I want it to be portable around the house (so not a desktop) and more comfortable to hold than a laptop and have a bigger screen than an iPhone. The standard guess of a 10" screen sounds pretty good, though showing an 8.5" x 11" document at full size (how none European of me) would be great.
I think a camera facing the reader to enable video iChat would be great. It doesn't need one facing away like the iPhone has.
Obviously it needs wifi but a cellular connection should be an add-on like the iPod Touch vs the iPhone.
WIth a touch screen it would be fine for taking light notes or annotating documents but not too much more. An iPhone like virtual keyboard would be much better at something approaching full sized. See this comparison of input technologies. Some extra multi-touch stuff as has been rumored would be fine too.
A friend wants it to control his Apple TV and that sounds fine to me. I suspect like the Remote apps on the iPhone there will be better remotes apps on a bigger screen. Also I suspect it will let me access my iTunes etc. collection on the device (via syncing or streaming or both).
I suspect the talk about a multi-touch iWork or syncing your iTunes to the cloud to access it from anywhere will come with a later release (if at all). I also suspect the updated iLife will include stuff for rending on the table device (make movies in iMovie and photo albums in iPhoto for it).
It might be just because I'm reading through a 186 page pdf of a Supreme Court decision now and it's tying me to my desk, but it would be great to have a tablet device to read this comfortably on the couch. I'd like the Mac OS built in dictionary functionality too. And yes, this would make it comparable to a Kindle so I suspect Apple will have the ability to buy magazines or books from it too though perhaps that comes later. All the buying will obviously happen through the iTunes store.
The result might be a laptop with the ease of use of an iPhone. It's not general purpose and you wouldn't use it for Photoshop or creating spreadsheets, but it would be a great living room device.
I'd like a tablet sized device for around the house. I want it mostly to consume media (music, videos, documents, web surfing). I want it to be portable around the house (so not a desktop) and more comfortable to hold than a laptop and have a bigger screen than an iPhone. The standard guess of a 10" screen sounds pretty good, though showing an 8.5" x 11" document at full size (how none European of me) would be great.
I think a camera facing the reader to enable video iChat would be great. It doesn't need one facing away like the iPhone has.
Obviously it needs wifi but a cellular connection should be an add-on like the iPod Touch vs the iPhone.
WIth a touch screen it would be fine for taking light notes or annotating documents but not too much more. An iPhone like virtual keyboard would be much better at something approaching full sized. See this comparison of input technologies. Some extra multi-touch stuff as has been rumored would be fine too.
A friend wants it to control his Apple TV and that sounds fine to me. I suspect like the Remote apps on the iPhone there will be better remotes apps on a bigger screen. Also I suspect it will let me access my iTunes etc. collection on the device (via syncing or streaming or both).
I suspect the talk about a multi-touch iWork or syncing your iTunes to the cloud to access it from anywhere will come with a later release (if at all). I also suspect the updated iLife will include stuff for rending on the table device (make movies in iMovie and photo albums in iPhoto for it).
It might be just because I'm reading through a 186 page pdf of a Supreme Court decision now and it's tying me to my desk, but it would be great to have a tablet device to read this comfortably on the couch. I'd like the Mac OS built in dictionary functionality too. And yes, this would make it comparable to a Kindle so I suspect Apple will have the ability to buy magazines or books from it too though perhaps that comes later. All the buying will obviously happen through the iTunes store.
The result might be a laptop with the ease of use of an iPhone. It's not general purpose and you wouldn't use it for Photoshop or creating spreadsheets, but it would be a great living room device.
Paul Krugman For The Fed?
Simon Johnson recommends Paul Krugman For The Fed chair.
Krugman says that's crazy.
James Kwak wonders "is this a serious 'I don’t want to be considered'”.
Personally, I'd like to see Krugman in the administration in some capacity.
Krugman says that's crazy.
James Kwak wonders "is this a serious 'I don’t want to be considered'”.
Personally, I'd like to see Krugman in the administration in some capacity.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Be Careful at the ATM
Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? "Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be affixed to the mouth of an ATM and secretly swipe credit and debit card information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to pull out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but thieves are constantly improving them, and the device pictured below is a perfect example of that evolution."
63% of internet readers will like this comic
This is a fun comic from PhD Comics, 63% of internet readers will like this comic "Dear News Media, When reporting poll results, please keep in mind the following suggestions..."
What Happened to Keith Olbermann?
I haven't watched Countdown in a while, instead I settled on The Rachel Maddow Show. Still I caught Countdown on Wed and thought Olbermann was sounding more and more like O'Reilly. Then last night, Jon Stewart did this:
He's taken on Maddow and Olbermann this weekend. I wonder if that's a new strategy?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Special Comment - Keith Olbermann's Name-Calling | ||||
| www.thedailyshow.com | ||||
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He's taken on Maddow and Olbermann this weekend. I wonder if that's a new strategy?
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Parliament vs Congress
CSPAN3 is showing British PM Gordon Brown addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday. You only need to see a few minutes of the debate to realize that Congress is horribly broken.
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