On Citizens United v. FEC & The Citizens' Election Program
Imagine it is Election Day. You wake up, turn on your TV, and notice that every ad actually is a campaign commercial. You open up your bills. Inside is a candidate leaflet. Your credit card bill strongly suggests that you vote against your senator because he’s making your interest rates go up. On TV pharmaceutical companies start peddling politicians instead of pills. It may seem strange today but after the Supreme Court’s ruling, if Congress doesn’t act, it could become reality.
The Death of the Newspaper
Maureen Dowd writes a depressing piece on the outsourcing of newspapers.
John McCain Can't Use a Computer
Not only is John McCain old, but he is unable to use a computer. Check out the video from Yahoo.
How to eliminate doping in sports…
An interesting proposal at the Freakonomics blog. It does not sound perfect, but it sounds like a good attempt at trying. Especially for the sport of cycling, which appears to have a lot of doping issues.
Do book blurbs matter?
The Freakonomics Blog tackles the question. They did make a difference to me at least once. Due to the blurb on Stumbling Upon Happiness by one of the authors of Freakonomics, I decided to pick it up.
Calling it for Hillary
Well it appears Hillary Clinton is the winner of the New Hampshire primary, at least the AP and NBC are calling it for her right now. I spent the day up in New Hampshire canvassing for Barack Obama, and it was an experience. However even if at the end of the night Obama loses, it's not by a wide margin. What we end up with is an open race, and Obama can still take it. I think we might really have a Super Tuesday that is much more meaningful than ones in years past.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink is a look at the human subconscious and the how people use it to effectively make decisions in a split second that are just as reliable as decisions made after long periods of study. Gladwell actually makes the case that often these split second decisions are in fact superior to ones made after a long period of self-deliberation. He explains that this decision making process, he refers to as thin slicing, allows us to ignore extraneous information that might confuse us if we study something carefully.
