“Gosh, internet, you sure do have a lot of sites. You even seem to have sites even for very unlikely things. I wonder if you have a site dedicated to that most famous ancient weapon, the sling, and people who embrace this archaic method of hurling little bits of heavy stuff at their enemies?”
And the internet answers, “Of course.”
Ben Sargent is leaving the local rag. Newspapers really are dying, eh?
or at least, they love the idea of commodifying and selling you…
To the largest stingray in the world.
It’s the thing you’ve been waiting for! Well, maybe ,em>you haven’t. But I have.
Mark Newman, from the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan has posted the yummy cartograms of the 2008 US Presidential Election results. I could bore you with discussions, but instead, I suggest you go check out his work.
It’s awfully nice, as a Texan, not to have Travis County as a remote little island of blue in a sea of red. This time around the central counties of our major metropolitan areas all went blue, too. So here’s to you, Harris, Dallas, Bexar, El Paso and Jefferson counties. And three cheers for all you folks in the Valley and out West, too. Especially my dear friends in Maverick County!
And he’s not alone. Here’s what that notorious commie General Colin Powell had to say on the matter:
Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who pay them — in roads and airports and hospitals and schools. And taxes are necessary for the common good, and there’s nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is or who should be paying more, who should be paying less. For us to say that makes you a socialist, I think, is an unfortunate characterization that isn’t accurate.
source: CNN