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.
Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
I was shocked that the Boston Globe (which did run the appropriate Mon and Tue strips) ran the re-run strip yesterday. Luckily, Slate has the daily Doonesbury.
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.
I don't understand the example they provided at all. Which I guess makes me kinda dumb.
Heh. Rahm Emanuel is pictured holding paczki on his wikipedia page. Which will always make me think of Steph.
I don't understand the example they provided at all. Which I guess makes me kinda dumb.
The second example, I initially felt the same way. Actually, I felt the question was dumb (that it didn't make any sense). But since I was sure it would provide Important Psychological Insights, I pressed on... to where I could see either way of looking at it....
