Is Hillary running for night receptionist? Does it really matter who answers the phone? If there is some national emergency, don’t they wake up the president? Unless he is reading the My Pet Goat, which I believe translates to “do not disturb no matter what”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70emIFxETs Also, the general theme of “make your opponent seem [...]
Archive for February, 2008
What
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Politics on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Slipping
Posted in Dana Perino, George W. Bush, Politics on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry. There were a bunch of White House press secretaries, and then there was Tony Snow, and he was a nice guy and got really sick and had no money and left, and then I think I started flying to Europe a lot and not paying a whole lot of attention to the Republicans…and [...]
Mortgages
Posted in Finance, Housing Crisis on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This has been explained before, but never with such excellent graphics: http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true
Pot, Kettle
Posted in Hillary Clinton, Politics on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAYItnI-lPo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7Cs3QvT3U
Star Wars
Posted in Military on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Doesn’t this indicate a certain lack of confidence in missile defense (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23253805)? If lousy weather is going to stop us from shooting down a satellite on an extremely well-understood trajectory with weeks of notice, how exactly are we going to intercept hundreds of ICBMs in boost phase with a few seconds to decide?
Regressions
Posted in Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Obama on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting use of stats: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/9/13227/22519/239/453361 Seems wildly uphill for Barry. He somehow has to win Texas or Ohio plus Pennsylvania (or, I suppose, Texas and Ohio but not Pennsylvania), and even if he does this, the weird superdelegate concept means that 800 delegates who likely owe their jobs to Bill Clinton have the deciding vote. [...]
