Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Over at the Poor Man Institute, they are agreeing with Jim about putting Bush and Cheney on trial.  The discussion has turned to whether Bush might pardon himself and Cheney, and an excellent suggestion was made:
We should find a way to bump the inauguration up to December, all of a sudden like, so that [...]

By Thoreau
Since I’ve resumed work on my paper on the mathematics of voting, I want to blog about Arrow’s Theorem, one of the most important theorems in the mathematics of voting. The first thing you should know about it is that it doesn’t quite say that there’s no “perfect” voting method. “Perfect” is a [...]

Kerry Howley has a good meditation on "Hillary Clinton and the anti-feminist backlash." Excerpt:
It’s a subtle, melancholy piece with a jackhammer-soft headline: “At the barricades of the gender wars.” What an embarrassingly inept use of cliche. Does this feel like a war? Putnam didn’t tear her bra off, throw water in her lunch date’s face [...]