Publius takes a look at the statistics and comes to a basic conclusion: the South remains far more racially divided, at least politically, than the rest of the country. For those inclined to disagree, he asks for alternative numbers as to why the numbers are so skewed in the South. No excerpt, because excerpts wouldn’t [...]
Archive for November 23rd, 2004
The 2004 Election, Race, and the South
Posted in Politics on November 23, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Test Your Space-Q
Posted in Science on November 23, 2004 | 10 Comments »
Space.com has a nice little quiz to see how current your knowledge of space science is. Sadly, I only scored 7 out of 10 (although two of my three wrong answers were based on the same related — incorrect — premise, and one about which I was unsure; if I had gone with my initial [...]
A Small Victory
Posted in Legal Issues on November 23, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The fair use killing bill I spoke about a few days ago has been gutted: The Senate passed a scaled-back version of a controversial copyright bill Saturday, keeping a provision that imposes severe penalties on people caught with camcorders in movie theaters but scrapping other provisions that copyright-reform activists had criticized. On Saturday, the Senate [...]
Killing JFK
Posted in Culture on November 23, 2004 | 4 Comments »
This is beyond disgusting: The release of a video game that recreates the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy has caught the attention of local authorities who say such things desensitize people to violence. Glasgow-based firm Traffic said “JFK Reloaded” was an educational “docu-game” that would help disprove conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death. The game was [...]
The End of the World As We Know It, And Bush Feels Fine
Posted in Economics on November 23, 2004 | 11 Comments »
This is a lovely little day starter: Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he’s saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better [...]
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