Laugh all you want…

What were the odds? Just as I start doing stand-up for the first time, John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey makes a compelling argument for drawing politicians from the ranks, not of lawyers and CEOs, but stand-up comics: Let’s say the candidate’s job is to walk...

Dog whistle politics

Here’s a great little term I’d never heard before, courtesy of the Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary: dog whistle politics n. a concealed, coded, or unstated idea, usually divisive or politically dangerous, nevertheless understood by the intended...

19 times out of 20

Just a quick note to suggest you have a look at Matthew Yglesias’ explanation of why you can’t always take polls literally: I’ve seen polls showing, pretty consistently, that people favor a flat tax. Polls also consistently show that people think the...
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