My History Can Beat Up Your Politics had a fantastic episode about a month ago that dealt with the issue of DC's representation in Congress. The main political problem with giving DC statehood is that it would add 2 Democratic Senate seats more or less by default, which obviously would make it hard to get bipartisan support for. (One solution that's been tossed around is to grant DC statehood, but also split California into two states on the assumption that South California would probably elect Republican senators and keep the current balance intact.)
Yeah... That went well.
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Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 5:02:04 am PST #1477 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Scola - Nov 24, 2009 5:07:52 am PST #1478 of 30000
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Another solution I've heard would be to incorporate most of DC into Maryland, and to keep just a small area around the Mall as the district proper.
Jessica - Nov 24, 2009 5:08:58 am PST #1479 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yeah, Ward 3's been trying to defect for years now - MD doesn't want it.
WindSparrow - Nov 24, 2009 5:31:45 am PST #1480 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Please tell me I'm not the only murrican who ends up with a bit of the Queen's English in the mouth after watching QI segments. It wasn't so hard to talk like myself after the Fry & Laurie bits but this just creeps in and makes me annoying.
ETA: For values of annoying that equal "bad accent which is not one's own".
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 5:33:52 am PST #1481 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Please tell me I'm not the only murrican who ends up with a bit of the Queen's English in the mouth after watching QI segments.
Heh. I wouldn't know - but it's funny imagining you guys watching QI and talking like Stephen Fry.
erikaj - Nov 24, 2009 5:42:45 am PST #1482 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I did that once reading Nick Hornby and trying to write my Entourage script. And, because NH and Entourage are both sort of about blokes and their blokeliness, it snuck up on me too. Then the next day, I read back and it was like "Johnny Drama has a cell, not a mobile." I guess I find that contagious.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 5:51:51 am PST #1483 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I guess I find that contagious.
The Girl uses a lot of American phrases and terms, having partly grown up in Houston. I 'catch' them so easily. Fortunately she doesn't have an American accent. I picked up bits of that after about a week of my year in the US.
WindSparrow - Nov 24, 2009 5:53:01 am PST #1484 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Heh. I wouldn't know - but it's funny imagining you guys watching QI and talking like Stephen Fry.
I just hope I'm not as horrifying as the American accents in Jeeves and Wooster.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 24, 2009 5:55:30 am PST #1485 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I just hope I'm not as horrifying as the American accents in Jeeves and Wooster.
Just as long as you're better than James Marsters.
Gudanov - Nov 24, 2009 5:56:58 am PST #1486 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I 'catch' them so easily. Fortunately she doesn't have an American accent. I picked up bits of that after about a week of my year in the US.
What do people think of American accents over there? Over here, British accents are generally well regarded.