- Voter ID Laws are Racist | Booman Tribune • by BooMan
- I think we're going to have start calling these Voter ID laws something more memorable. I prefer "Jim Crow-Lite Laws" …
- Yes! | Talking Points Memo • by David Kurtz
- This year's big spending cut bill that prevented a government shutdown by slashing the federal budget and allowing Republicans to make good on their campaign promises actually — wait for it — increased federal spending by $3 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
- Behold, the Power of Evolutionary Psychology | Alas, a blog • by Jeff Fecke
- Every so often, when I’m writing a post about how anti-science the modern conservative movement is, someone will pop up to declare that Democrats are also anti-science… This used to be puzzling, but over the years I’ve learned that it’s about evolutionary psychology…
If there is a ringmaster in the three-ring circus which is evpsych, it is Satoshi Kanazawa…author of the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.
…even by Kanazawa’s shoddy…standards, his latest article is breathtaking in its frontal racism and complete disregard for human decency. …
[Offensive question is offensive. -L]
Yes. He did. No, I’m not making this up. Seriously.
- Not just another pol | Hullabaloo – digby
- Greg Sargent has written a good analysis of President Obama's negotiating strategy. Basically, it's a re-election strategy …
Considering the [competition], Obama will very likely win regardless of any of this…
…at this point I think we also have to assume that the policy outcomes that are precipitated by the electoral strategy are also ones with which the president feels perfectly comfortable. But the political ramifications of it are fairly extreme for liberalism.
- Scenes From a Slutwalk | Tucson Weekly
- Tucson Weekly photographer Josh Morgan was on the scene for Tucson's slutwalk on Friday afternoon.
Why a slutwalk?…
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