[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] James Mejia has just endorsed Chris Romer in the Denver mayoral runoff. This strikes me as a surprise, and something of a big deal. This is the progressives’ favored candidate endorsing the establishment guy. As I wrote on Wednesday, Hancock needs Mejia’s base, and this makes that tougher. Denver Post… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] “Generic headline makes statement”
This video is some of the best footage I’ve seen conveying the extent of the damage in the areas most devastated by the April 27 tornado outbreak in Alabama: Alabama Weather Blog continues to be the go-to source of information about the calamity’s aftermath. And there’s lots of the on-the-ground relief effort information at Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa. Oh, and here’s… Read more »
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] [The Fox News GOP debate] made the Republican presidential primary look like a low-budget Star Trek convention, where only the guy who played Dr. McCoy and a bunch of extras bothered to show up. Matt Latimer, The Daily Beast
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Did “two billion viewers” watch the Royal Wedding? Not just no, but hell no.
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] The job market inches back toward normalcy.
I don’t follow Scottish politics, so perhaps Alasdair or my dad or somebody can tell me: is this a fair summary of yesterday’s election results? FREEDOM!!!!! 🙂 P.S. Meanwhile, it’s FPTP FTW, and I believe Nick Clegg is saying to his enemies that they may take his Alternative Vote, but they’ll never take his adorable cats!!!
This is pretty cool:
Jolly Old England (and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) are set to begin counting the votes in their referendum on whether to switch from the First-Past-The-Post system to the Alternative Vote system. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a video (produced by AV supporters) explaining how it works for cats:
[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] It seems appropriate that this arrived on the day we learned Gus Johnson lost his CBS gig, as well as the day of the Pawlenty-Paul-Santorum-Johnson-Cain GOP debate freakshow. #PANIC!