from Left-right ideology of voters, congressmembers, and senators via Kottke
Smith Rock at Night
I’m just going to leave these here for you to enjoy[1]: P.S. I’m not dead. Promise. click to embiggen [↩]
Men Who Stare At Goats on Quandary Peak
One of the three times I went back to Colorado last year was to hang out with the old clan from college, specifically roommates and associated…
An Atkins Wedding!
During all my travels last year, I did get to do many fun things, such as attending the awesome wedding of Lance and Nicole! I’ve known Lance…
Why do I hate politics in general? Reason number 107 is the premise on which that graph is based: that there is one dimension of political belief (liberal or conservative). That understanding is incredibly wrongheaded. Where would you put Ron Paul on that graph? There needs to be at least an axis for economic policy and an axis for social policy (this two dimensional graph works much better than that stupid line), but I also think there needs to be a separate line for foreign policy. Plug those variables in, and I think the graph will look so different as to make the one you’ve presented here irrelevant.