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Not-fun travel tomorrow.
Hasty selection of summer photos. Yes I know a couple aren't rotated.
Plant links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
duckweed invasion
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4654
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/dodder.htm
plant behavior
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html
plant carnivory might be more common
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34333178/ns/technology_and_science-science/
I calculated that the smallest 21 states, controlling 41-42 Senators, have 34 million people, or 11% of the population. You need half the people in those states to control the Senators, so in theory 6% of the population could shut down Congress via filibuster. Vs. needing an ideal 26% to control the House.
Politics links
* Krugman on Obama's non-progressiveness
* and on simulating single-payer
* "Most valuable Democrats"
* The deficit: Mostly Bush
* Gay marriage legalized in Mexico city
* Fringe? GOPer jokes about Obama hunting tags; schoolchildren in his area had chanted "assassinate Obama".
* This is sadly true in some purist regions.
* Ben Nelson is a reasonable compromising conservative; Lieberman is an unpredictable rogue.
* The pre-existing Democratic consensus on health-care reform.
* Needle exchange funding ban repealed by Congressional Democrats
* Soldier's family denied entry to the US
* "I'll just add that I understand the model in which you don't agree that this bill will expand and improve as it develops its constituency over time. But I don't understand the model by which you believe this bill won't be improved over time but you simultaneously believe reformers can get something better in the foreseeable future."
Hasty selection of summer photos. Yes I know a couple aren't rotated.
Plant links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
duckweed invasion
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4654
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/dodder.htm
plant behavior
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html
plant carnivory might be more common
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34333178/ns/technology_and_science-science/
I calculated that the smallest 21 states, controlling 41-42 Senators, have 34 million people, or 11% of the population. You need half the people in those states to control the Senators, so in theory 6% of the population could shut down Congress via filibuster. Vs. needing an ideal 26% to control the House.
Politics links
* Krugman on Obama's non-progressiveness
* and on simulating single-payer
* "Most valuable Democrats"
* The deficit: Mostly Bush
* Gay marriage legalized in Mexico city
* Fringe? GOPer jokes about Obama hunting tags; schoolchildren in his area had chanted "assassinate Obama".
* This is sadly true in some purist regions.
* Ben Nelson is a reasonable compromising conservative; Lieberman is an unpredictable rogue.
* The pre-existing Democratic consensus on health-care reform.
* Needle exchange funding ban repealed by Congressional Democrats
* Soldier's family denied entry to the US
* "I'll just add that I understand the model in which you don't agree that this bill will expand and improve as it develops its constituency over time. But I don't understand the model by which you believe this bill won't be improved over time but you simultaneously believe reformers can get something better in the foreseeable future."