Yesterday the Facebook News Feed was moderately functional for a change, which is how I discovered the existence of the Coffee Party, which had been Facebook-fanned by several of my Facebook friends and/or stalkers and/or stalkees.
Given that I drink approximately 10 cups of coffee a day, you’d expect that I’d be favorably inclined toward a [...]

Seattle, in case you don’t follow our local politics, has got a mayoral election going on. (Technically it was last Tuesday, but they’re still counting the ballots.)
It’s a fairly interesting election, as elections go, if only because we junked the good-for-nothing incumbent in the primary, mostly on account of his failure (“think of the [...]

Great news, Senior Citizens! President Obama wants to give you $250!
Why? Probably so you’ll vote for him again come 2012.
There’s some sort of nominally non-tawdry reason, too.
You see, by law, Social Security payments increase each year in a manner pegged to inflation. When Rascal Scooters and Life Alerts [...]

This week’s New Republic features Larry Lessig’s new screed Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government.
The essay is approximately a jillion words long and doesn’t make any sense. As best as I can tell, here are its salient points:
1. Transparency will negatively impact “faith in our political system.”
2. You [...]