Just slightly over a year ago, I said here that the courts would be too slow to be of any help in dealing with this coup. And that is proving to be the case. Today’s example of this is: This…
Still Ain’t Representin’: South Carolina
Last summer, I calculated what the U.S. House of Representatives would look like if the U.S. used statewide proportional representation by party registration to elect congresscritters: Those focused specifically on Texas and California, but since the gerrymandering wars have continued…
Metaphorical Intelligence: On Generative AI And The Library Of Babel
Paul Campos, the author at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog who I’ve mentioned the most times here, has a post up today linking to some recent incidents with LLMs and listing some ideas about LLMs that he’d like to…
MAGA: Massive American Grift, Again
I don’t have much time today, but this is historic so I want it noted here. This “settlement” is the largest, and most brazen, act of corruption in U.S. history. This is, amazingly, not hyperbole. The lawsuit it’s connected to…
Oh, Jared: A Thoroughly Typical Modern Democrat
Jared Polis is only the third worst Jared in national politics these days; it’s hard to compete for the bottom in a field that includes Jared Kushner and Jared Golden. But yeah: he’s still terrible. Most recently, of course, is…
Still Ain’t Representin’: Alabama
Last summer, I calculated what the U.S. House of Representatives would look like if the U.S. used statewide proportional representation by party registration to elect congresscritters: Those focused specifically on Texas and California, but since the gerrymandering wars have continued…
Hawaii’s Doing This: “Citizens United” Is Easily Defeated
In the fourth post on this blog, six and half years ago, I suggested that any state could solve the whole “corporations are people too” nonsense by explicitly stating that no, they aren’t. And now a state is kinda doing…
Still Ain’t Representin’: Virginia
Last summer, I calculated what the U.S. House of Representatives would look like if the U.S. used statewide proportional representation by party registration to elect congresscritters: Those focused specifically on Texas and California, but since the gerrymandering wars have continued…
Still Ain’t Representin’: Tennessee
Last summer, I calculated what the U.S. House of Representatives would look like if the U.S. used statewide proportional representation by party registration to elect congresscritters: Last week, I updated that with a discussion of Florida: And today we get…
Democracy’s Weakness: Even Good Systems Can’t Cope With Bad Voters
Democracy is not, in itself, a particularly good way of running a State; it’s complicated and messy and really an awful lot of work. It’s only virtue is that it’s the most fair. But even that’s only really true when…