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A new poll, unsurprisingly, finds that Republicans overwhelmingly blame Democrats for the shutdown, despite the fact that Individual-1, before the fact, proudly took ownership of any shutdown. Facts don’t mean much on the dark side. But there’s something that doesn’t seem to compute here. Here are the results:     The percentages given don’t add up […]

I don’t pretend to know all that much about British politics, but it strikes me that the Conservative Party is suffering from one of the anti-democratic maladies for which the Republican Party has become notorious. Apparently, the British people, if given the chance, would vote to reverse the Brexit vote.It was, after all, the result of […]

If Camilo Casas is elected to city council in Boulder, Colorado, this November, he doesn’t plan to make any decisions himself. If he wins, Casas will instead give up his vote to Parti.Vote, a “liquid democracy” app he built to change how government functions. This is how it will work: If more than 50 percent […]

I was reading this post at Hullabaloo about the oft debunked claim (which nonethless never dies) that businessmen make good politicians, and I said to myself: “I’ve written about this at one point”. So, I looked for it, and found it here. Re-reading your old stuff can sometimes be embarrassing, but sometimes it can be […]