Entries Tagged as 'americas'
December 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Nathan over at FlowingData has stumbled upon yet another neat-o tool that’s as unscientific as it is fun to play with:
StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a search term and get Google search levels with correlations to certain “metrics” like obesity or support for Obama.
Since he’s a mature sort, […]
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Tags: americas · curio · maps · neato · stats · usa
The presidential pardon has got to be one of the strangest traditions in Washington. How exactly is justice served when an outgoing president hands out clean slates to a dozen or so convicted criminals, just because he’s a few weeks away from retirement? Why should a president have the power to bypass the […]
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Tags: americas · government · law and order · news · politics · usa
November 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
When I first saw this little story on the Consumerist, I thought it had to be a joke. But out of curiosity, I googled it — and came up with 113,000 hits, a flag-waving liberty dollar nutbar website, and a too-strange-to-be-true article in the Washington Post:
Once upon a time, a “monetary architect” named Bernard […]
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Tags: americas · crazy · money · usa
Once again, the folks at FlowingData have taken reams and reams of inane-seeming data, compared it to scads and scads of other inane-seeming data, and turned the whole reamy scaddy mess into something fascinating. Check out these maps of cotton-picking intensity in 1860 and presidential voting today in America’s South — see anything interesting?
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Tags: americas · curio · election · history · maps · obama · usa
Parts of South Dakota are buried under a staggering snowstorm that apparently came out of nowhere, and people are missing all over the state. I know South Dakotans are hardy and all, but isn’t it a little early in the season for this sort of thing?
CNN reports:
“We cannot see a thing in many areas […]
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Tags: americas · holy crap · nature · scary · usa · weather
November 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Not that it’s any of my business, since I’m not American, but on behalf of the rest of the world, congratulations on choosing the best person for the job. We — and 52% of America — could be wrong about him, and we’ll have four years to find out, but in terms at least […]
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Tags: americas · darn tootin' · election · government · holy crap · neato · news · obama · opinion · politics · usa
November 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Peter Hitchens, an excellent — if fiercely conservative — writer and columnist at Britain’s right-leaning Daily Mail, is covering America’s pre-election mood from Moscow, Idaho, which is incidentally named after a town in Pennsylvania, not Russia. Though I don’t agree with his politics, his latest editorial piece is a thing of beauty — as […]
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Tags: americas · election · mccain · neato · obama · opinion · politics · usa
Because they’re idiots, that’s why.
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I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when B sent me this link. Have a wander over to sarahpalin.com.
Hey Mark!
I was going to msg you with this, but saw that you’re marked “Do not disturb”. I was checking something on barackobama.com and thought why not check out johnmccain.com. I perused a bit and […]
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October 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
After more than a year, a Nebraska state senator’s lawsuit against God has finally worked its way through the courts and been dismissed — not because it’s silly, but because the legal paperwork omitted the defendant’s home address, in violation of state law.
From CNN:
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God [last year], seeking a […]
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