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Not terribly surprising. People use polls to communicate their attitudes, feelings, and values as much as their assessment of empirical fact. While it explicitly asked about Katrina, the pollees saw it as asking them to side with Obama over Bush. Under the circumstances, I can understand why...

See now, this is why you have to stalk people. You don't have to worry about intrusive phone calls if you know when they sleep.

I'd fire into the torso or the head, which ever presented a better target, with as much aiming as possible. My only real hope is that the pain and noise scares the animal off. Which doesn't seem that unlikely. This may be a life or death fight to the finish for me, but most predators aren't...

First, bills that cover multiple subjects get passed all of the time, especially appropriations bills. Lumping issues together lets horse-trading and log-rolling occur, and is generally a good thing. Second, it's not even a secret that Republicans are decoupling the issues because they want...

SNAP is traditionally attached to the farm bill because it's an unpopular but necessary program and shoving money at local farmers is something almost every congressman likes. Separating the two is a transparent bid to gut the funding for foodstamps on partisan lines.

Two somewhat flat pillow, propped up against the wall. I used to use one, but I've found out that two can make colds and allergies less miserable.

I've seen a lot of people ragging on the prosecutor for failing to get a conviction, and I don't think that's fair. When he handled the case of a black woman who fired a harmless warning shot at her abusive ex, he got a conviction and twenty years. What I'm saying is, the system works.

You haven't been following the farm bill fight? House Republicans got fed up with the fact that arguing over foodstamps was delaying the passage of the gigantic bucket of subsidies to the agricultural industry, and cut all of nonsense about feeding poor people out.

The House is too busy defunding SNAP to deal with immigration reform.

Well, I guess we'll never know what drove Trayvon Martin to hunt down an innocent man while he was fetching his little brother some skittles and lemonade to watch the big game. :(

I think I had pretty blown up ideas of what was expected of three year olds. I don't remember it, but I'm told that when I was two I freaked out at bath time when my hair or face was washed. The night after my third birthday, apparently I stuck my head underwater to prove I was too mature to...

Third birthday. My parents were trying to throw a party for me, and I was worried about growing up and threw a temper tantrum. I went outside to pout on the front porch. Eventually I came to terms with the fact that there probably wasn't anything I could do about the aging process, and that this...

Well Schweitzer's officially bowed out of the Montana Senate race. The general consensus seems to be that the polls that made him look like a shoo-in really were too good to be true, and he decided not to contest it. On the one hand, it's hard to fault his political calculus. On the other, I...

I explained why Clinton was a special case, Carter was closer to his party than you think and ran in the super-weird first primary after the Democrats reformed their system, and I'm pretty sure you're projecting dissatisfaction with 2013 President Obama onto 2008 candidate Obama.

Stop begging the question, Cutlass.

Not sure what Gillibrand's bringing to the table that gets her so much speculation. She's pretty deftly transitioned from the Blue Dog caucus into the party mainstream and she's got some fundraising chops (every pol from New York has fundraising chops). I agree with you that Kasich has...

Entomologist porn, Homoerotic bakeries People doing it on the roof of a city bus, with all the associated voyeurism and sudden stops. Erotic fan fiction for the 6 episode sitcom 704 Hauser Pairing two real world characters: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Canadian pop star Justin...

And this is why fillibusters are more cool than they are practical. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195983228/texas-legislators-called-back-for-special-session-on-abortion-bill

I think that if Republicans wanted to nominate the Shrieking White-Hot Sphere of Pure Rage they would have done it in 2012. There are real problems with Republican incentives to get elected, but the White House is probably the only race important enough that the party will absolutely nominate an...

Rule 34 isn't true, because making porn takes work. Holding political positions doesn't. Therefore, if it's possible to believe something, someone does. And the Internet puts you in contact with them. I wouldn't get worked up about it.