Grotewold wrote:Good BS Report podcast today with Nate Silver

he kinda just put his balls on Politico's face and it was hilarious

Silver has that Quentin Tarantino affectation where he says "right?" after every other sentence.

Wait, people read politico? It has to be the most useless political site out there.

simmons definitely found the guy that sounds so close to him to have a 50 minute pdocast

from the guy who brought you "In Harvard essay, young Michelle Obama argued for race-based faculty hiring," now comes:

Susan Rice in 1986 book: Make white students learn black history

ohhhh shiiiiiiiiittt, game over susan. game over

I had one black prof for econ 10X. My advisor was Indian and there was an Asian guy for an advanced topic political science class I took by mistake (prof was part of a Japanese PM campaign and was never in class). That was it. Everyone else was pasty white.

Sean Davis ‏@seanmdav
Simple economics is that when you increase a tax on an activity you will get less of that activity, ceteris paribus.

ad infinitum

daveweigel ‏@daveweigel
GOP during campaign: "Unlike Obama, we'll never cut Medicare." GOP now: "Obama must be responsible, and cut Medicare."

td11 wrote:daveweigel ‏@daveweigel
GOP during campaign: "Unlike Obama, we'll never cut Medicare." GOP now: "Obama must be responsible, and cut Medicare."

it's the brazenness with which they politic that's the most amazing

td11 wrote:Sean Davis ‏@seanmdav
Simple economics is that when you increase a tax on an activity you will get less of that activity, ceteris paribus.

ad infinitum

this is, of course, not always true

and depends on what you call an 'activity'

td11 wrote:Sean Davis ‏@seanmdav
Simple economics is that when you increase a tax on an activity you will get less of that activity, ceteris paribus.

ad infinitum

ipso fuckto

drsmooth wrote:

td11 wrote:Sean Davis ‏@seanmdav
Simple economics is that when you increase a tax on an activity you will get less of that activity, ceteris paribus.

ad infinitum

ipso fuckto

Blows my mind that they've carried the day on this issue with that and the words "class warfare."

pacino wrote:

taking the Christ out of Christmas and replacing it with dogs!!

Syria threatening to use chemical weapons on its people...that will be the 'red line' they cannot cross, according to Secretary Clinton

Boehner wants to 'fix' Medicare by simply making less people eligible for it and making everyone else wait longer, when the opposite should happen. it's an insurance program, rich people paid into it too. denying them medicare or offering less service seems wrong to me.

They can always go to the Emergency Room.

pacino wrote:Boehner wants to 'fix' Medicare by simply making less people eligible for it and making everyone else wait longer, when the opposite should happen. it's an insurance program, rich people paid into it too. denying them medicare or offering less service seems wrong to me.

yet lambasted the president on fictional charges of changing it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/ho ... tions.html

Good story on local/state subsidies. Pretty infuriating overall.

crazy-ass conservative Republican Senators defeat ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Santorum leads the charge in opposition (take that, Santorum's disabled daughter). Naturally, looney Toomey also voted against.

It's ratification of a non-binding UN treaty, ffs. Why are you incompetents always kicking yourself in your own crotch alla time?

Well, Republicans aren't going after the disabled peoples' vote.