By uber
From Peter Norvig:
The 12th amendment dictates that the incoming congress then gets to choose, but the exact rules are complex. The Senate chooses the vice-president; one senator one vote. Currently the prediction is for some 54 to 57 Democratic senators, so this scenario welcomes Joe Biden as VP. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives chooses the [...]
By xaosseed
I don’t ask a lot of those who rule the world but for fucks sake, I’m having to worry about where to get my salary paid? I won’t get an opportunity to spend it for a mere ten months and I have to worry will it have evaporated between this and then? Christ on a [...]
By xaosseed
I like tea. I like tea in a non-casual manner - and thus when one of my coworkers said ‘I like tea too’ and I said, orly? - ‘yes, instead of coffee when the tea trolley comes around’.
Sigh.
Not terribly unlike saying ‘I like wine’ - what type? - ‘oh, red’.
By uber
Maureen Dowd has a short piece on Barack Obama meeting the Left Wing’s Jed Bartlett. It’s a fun barn-stormer that the West Wing is famous for.
Best part:
BARTLET I won’t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.
It’s interesting to watch the GOP regain control of the cycle, and to watch progressives lose their heart [...]