lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.

Speaking of Obama, my manager at B&N (the one whose BIL is a Secret Service agent on Michelle's detail) said that his BIL was going to try and get him and his family a photo-shoot meet-n-greet with Obama! Nothing definite yet, but he's keeping his fingers crossed.

Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency

I saw his strip yesterday announcing Obama and thought he'd submitted two different ones, just in case. I didn't knew he'd decided to roll the dice.

lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.

No, I know. That's what prompted me to write. And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."

No, that's not President Bush's approval rating. It's the number of counties that voted more Republican than in 2004.

Looking at the actual numbers on NYT map makes that Daily Kos map seem .... silly. Florida went from 52% Republican in 2004 to 48% in 2008. Idaho went from 68% to 62%. Nebraska went from 66% to 57%. If this makes the Republicans a regional party, what are the Democrats?

Actually, a cursory check suggests they're using 2004 as the baseline because that's the high water mark for the GOP.

And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."

Okay, never mind. That's crack.

Admendment #1 which made English the only language to be used in state communications I lost. It when 93/7 for in my county. Now you can't even have state Internet websites or forums in any language other than English. Boo.

I lost on a couple other propositions as well. Oh well.

Gud, I voted against Amendment #1, but I knew it would lose.

I voted for light rail too (year and a half in KC without a car REALLY changed my perspective) but not too surprised it lost. Again. And again. Le sigh.

Everything else went the way I voted.

And let me say, I hated judges on the ballot. I thought I'd educated myself pretty well, but I knew NOTHING about the judges. They don't even put their party affiliation, if any, on the ballot.

My county was 78% Democratic. I was getting Move On and Democratic e-mails that obviously just filled in the county in a national script. They said things like "DeKalb County will go for McCain if you don't act now" and I was thinking "so the temperature is dropping in hell?"

I voted for light rail too (year and a half in KC without a car REALLY changed my perspective) but not too surprised it lost. Again. And again. Le sigh.

That's a tough sell in KC with the lack of population density. I do not envy anyone without a car in KC, this is not a carless friendly city.

Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome

Do people with Asperger Syndrome understand intentional actions in a different way than people without Asperger Syndrome? Edouard Machery, a philosopher of psychology and an experimental philosopher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, says they do:

I'm not gonna post the whole thing, even though it's just a few more paragraphs. But according to this, people with aspergers see the second case differently from people who don't.

Continuing my long tradition of being a fence-sitter, I can see the second case both ways, but the supposed aspie way makes more sense to me.