LongLiveYorke

Well, they just voted to raise the high-end income and sales taxes in an attempt to close their deficit so that should be a good experiment as to whether raising the high-end taxes can help with debt. So, yeah, we'll see.

[screen fades to black] Me: What... what happened? ... Me: I think my computer's broken. I see the mouse, but everything's black in my web browser, and the url is gone... [Words written in bold, white font begin to scroll across the screen] The Internet: Greetings, citizen of Cyberspace. Me: What the heck? The Internet: I (we) regret to inform you that the concept that you previously called the 'Internet' is no longer. Me: What? Why? The Internet: It appears that, after years of trying, somebody finally defeated me. Somebody finally 'won' the internet, re

Translation: Obamacare should have been more all-inclusive and added significant provisions to train more doctors, etc Translation: Obamacare did too much, and instead should have been many smaller bills that were all individually passed. wat

No, they're paid only to HAVE an audience, it the audience's fault that they choose to listen to people who say incorrect things.

There's a lot of praise that's being lavished on Nate Silver (and rightfully so, he's done an excellent job), but in reality, if you were to simply take a literal average of the polls in the swing states, you would have done as well as he did with his complicated model and regressions. It wasn't too hard to clearly see what would happen. And yet so, so many people failed to do so. This includes people here (cough) but also people whose jobs are to inform the public. There needs to be a system that punishes people who simply made awful, awful predictions. For example, these: http://

Oh?

Obama's getting Iowa, Colorado will be closer, but I think Obama gets it too.

Obama will win the electoral college (by a good margin) and the popular vote by about 1%. Democrats will gain in the Senate. House will remain about the same. Colorado will "legalize it." The electoral college will still be a supremely stupid idea.

What's the difference between a particular gene sequence in an abstract sense and a particular gene sequence that exists within a cell? Can you explain the difference in a way that doesn't boil down to you saying, "magic"? The real reason you're "dumbfounded" is because, like many people, you still haven't come to grips with the awesome power of life. See, by thinking that "life" is a magical thing that happens become some fairy says "abra cadabra" when sperm meets an egg, you are actually lessening its majesty. If you were to actually understand that it is the net sum of trillions of c

I also mourn for the many hypothetical children that aren't conceived because people aren't having enough sex. If two people were to have sex based on that alone and have a child, that child could grow up and be on an equally informative poster!

Well, I just got power back in my apartment, so that's pretty good news. The whole week was pretty surreal. During the hurricane, the streets (as seen from my apartment) were completely empty with the exception of emergency vehicles speeding down them. At around 8 or 9 that night, I heard a few large blasts, and then power went out shortly after. I'm assuming these were related to this transformer explosion: For the rest of the night, we were without power, but we still had cell service, so we could follow the news on our phones via twitter and facebook. But when I woke u

Power's back on, on back in my apartment, huzzah!

Oh, that's awful! Wait, what's that you say? The story's made up? Oh, how surprising. http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/11/huntsville_utilities_denies_cl.html#incart_river_default

Pretty liberal use of pluralization in this sentence.

Still alive!! Though, my apartment lost power, internet, cable, and cell phone service. And since I don't have a radio, I was essentially in 19th century communication mode for a while. When I woke up, I literally had no idea what was happening in the world, nor any way to communicate with friends and family. It was an odd experience. The power is essentially out for all of Manhattan below 39th street. There's now a line of demarcation between "normal" manhattan and "post-apocalyptic" manhattan. Subways are all out, buses aren't running, and there are no traffic lights, which make

Haven't been watching the news lately, but it's kind of windy outside. Anyone know anything about that?

And which people, exactly, are you talking about?

Not really. And by "not really," I mean not at all. Though a famous musician is crashing at my apartment tonight, so that's cool. And by "famous," I mean not that famous.

HE SAID LEATHER AND SHAME Wait, how does that joke work?

Bump, so I can use the new "like" feature on the post that contains my favorite quote from FCP ever: "Johnny. Fu cking. Chan"

...but... he did call it a terrorist act, that was the whole point of that interaction in the debate... The real issue is that you're assuming that several things are mutually exclusive, but they don't have to be. There are several issues at hand: - Was there a protest or not - Was the attack spontaneous or long planned - Was the attack a result of a video (and the opportunistic environment surrounding the video) or not - Was it ordered by Al Quaeda or not One can pick and choose several permutations of the above and still have a logically consistent narrative. As of now, it a

Please proceed....

You'd have to think that he's at least going to opening night...

Well, as a general policy, I don't think the President of the United States should negotiate with people who are pretty much blackmailing him, or reverse blackmailing him.

Yeah, I love those books!