You'll like this, billytea, Nate Silver predicted Pelosi would have between 216-218 votes as far back as 3/14.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 21, 2010 8:45:35 pm PDT #17771 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
billytea - Mar 21, 2010 8:56:35 pm PDT #17772 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You'll like this, billytea, Nate Silver predicted Pelosi would have between 216-218 votes as far back as 3/14.
I follow his site assiduously, it's always a good read. (His political position is pretty similar to mine too.) I will note, though, that it wasn't exactly a prediction; like a good statistician, he put the odds somewhere between 50-64%, and indeed noted that he was if anything less optimistic than the odds then offered on Intrade.
My primary news source is The Economist. I have to say, though, I've found their recent coverage of US politics to be on the woeful side. For mine, fivethirtyeight.com is at the moment the source that I find offers the most thoughtful and defensible analysis.
Burrell - Mar 22, 2010 3:14:00 am PDT #17773 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
ugh, insomnia. I think I should just embrace it and use the next hour and a half or so to get some grading done.
Sparky1 - Mar 22, 2010 3:29:14 am PDT #17774 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
On the National Mall Saturday were many, many angry people shouting, "Kill the bill!" Did not like.
My neighbor, Rahm's Deputy, was not home until very late last night.
Some work-related ~ma for about 10 a.m. Eastern would be welcome today, as I have to meet with big-wigs and don't want to make a fool of myself.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 22, 2010 3:43:12 am PDT #17775 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Hey-- does anyone want to talk about phlegm? I didn't think so, but I need medical advice so I will whitefont. I would ask at work, but all the nurses here are squeamish about phelgm!
So, I have been sick since Wednesday. I am a bit better, as I am no longer coughing the whole day and night, but I still feel like crap. My doctor has told me that I should not see him until I have yellow or green phelgm. I have twice, over the course of 4 days coughed up a HUGE wad of phelgm. Once it was yellow, and this am it was green. Does that count?
Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2010 3:45:11 am PDT #17776 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Yes.
Amy - Mar 22, 2010 3:50:04 am PDT #17777 of 30001
Because books.
Absolutely, Sophia. Poor thing. Make an appointment!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 22, 2010 4:01:20 am PDT #17778 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Ok then! I guess I should figure out how I can get to the doctor. Due to the vagaries of public transportation in Rochester, I can theoretically walk to the doctors from work (it is 3 miles)or I can take the bus from work downtown, and then to the doctor, which takes about an hour and a half.
Burrell - Mar 22, 2010 4:02:19 am PDT #17779 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yes Sophia, although in my experience as a mom, yellow or even greenish in the am is nothing to get too concerned about, the big concern is discolored phlegm all day, esp accompanied by a fever.
DH saw a doctor for his persistent congestion about a week ago and was diagnosed with sinusitis but instead of antibiotics he was given an industrial strength cough drop and told to flush out his sinuses 3 times a day.
Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2010 4:03:34 am PDT #17780 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Call a cab, Sophia. It's that important.