Staking Out a Position

I’m not up to speed on the “kill-billers” situation, but I suspect that the topic will be old news in a few weeks. This bit from Nate Silver is worth repeating, though, because it nicely articulates my own feelings:
One of the reasons I consider myself to be a progressive/liberal/whatever is because, more often than [...]

Right On

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The Political Compass

I did the Progressive Quiz a while back, but here’s my result from a more inclusive test:
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

That’s how I would describe myself, mostly liberal with a chance of libertarianism. Good to know my picture of myself matches up with reality.

more progressive than a young, latino, progressive, liberal democrat, Obama voting female (woohoo!)

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html
My score: 323. Not sure when I became such a pinko. I definitely had libertarian leanings in high school, mostly due to R.A. Heinlein’s influence. Apparently reading actual political commentary instead of exclusively SF, and expanding my worldview beyond the Upper East side, swayed me.
I’ve labeled myself as a fairly moderate democrat in recent years, [...]

I was kinda bothered by how, in the aftermath of the election, all anyone was talking about was the racial barrier that “we’d” (just over half of us!!!) overcome. I’m guessing it’s a generational thing (I’m twixt GenX and GenY/Millenials), but the question of race had nothing to do with my vote for Obama and [...]

Yes

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Well said.

mmmmmmm…metasarcasm

Wheels keep on spinning round…

Senior Nazi Hermann Göring, at the time of his trial in Nuremberg:
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in [...]