As much as I hate to admit it – I was an early admirer – Obama would not now have to “promise a forceful stand against Clinton” if there were demonstrable substance to match the public persona.

After exclaiming loudly that Bush’s win in 2000 was legitimate because of the rules of the Electoral College, as opposed to the nationwide popular vote, Republicans are now preparing for the next election, which they will certainly lose on both counts, by rigging a system that selectively gives them votes from whichever favours them the […]

I got a bill from a lawyer today. The bill was for a few hundred dollars – nothing unusual or unreasonable for the services rendered. But at the bottom of the bill, under “Disbursements”, there was the following: “Postage: 0.52”. The postage, I assume, is for the stamp on this bill. My dentist doesn’t charge […]

I suppose having your PageRank whacked by an algorithm change is pretty bad news, but this seems to me a much more effective way to trash it.

It’s actually pretty funny watching the Republican Party, which has invested so much in the last 20 years to growing its base in the middle and lower classes by conning people with social conservatism into ignoring their own economic well-being (who needs job security or health-care when you can get a constitutional amendment banning flag-burning […]