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She doesn’t look blackish. In fact, she’s a blond. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Sweden, where she still has a passel of second cousins.
But it turns out that her grandmother, Jane Helm of Drake, Missouri, was passing all her life. And she carried the secret to her deathbed.
Suddenly it all made sense. The face powder. [...]

Republicans represent rich people in poor states.
Democrats represent the rich states - and they look out for everyone from hedge fund managers to the urban poor.
Just ask Chuck Schumer.

What comes to mind when you think of the Democratic presidential candidates? Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd haven’t been pegged yet, as far as I know. But here’s my list for the rest:

Edwards’s $400 haircut and 28,000 square foot home
Obama’s palmed cigarette
Biden’s plagiarism
Kucinich’s UFO sighting
There are so many possibilities for Hillary that it’s difficult to [...]

From Will Fitzgerald’s blog at the NY Times: The number of words spoken at the last Democratic ebate correlates precisely with each candidate’s poll numbers. Hillary is on top (25% of the words) and Joe Biden at the bottom (7% of the words).
The exception is Chris Dodd, who talked himself within shouting distance of John [...]

From Statistical Modeling and Social Science: Rich people in red states tend to vote Republican. But in blue states there’s no strong link between income and party affiliation. The well-off are no more likely than anyone else to embrace the elephant.
This blog is an aspirational read for me, since the statistics are usually over my [...]

Popular bloggers may disable the comment function or delete the missives of their attackers. Not me. I feel like a kid so starved for attention that he’s grateful for any notice, no matter how negative. And the surprising thing is - for someone as thin-skinned as I imagine myself to be - that there’s a [...]