Electronic Balloting

Great article on the manipulation of elections primarily done by the right. I used to think Chuck Hagel was a decent guy, no more. Ireland spent millions trying to move to electronic balloting and ended up throwing all the systems out in favor of paper ballots as all real democracies should.

http://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

Cancer/Food Links

Study states 80% of studies linking various foods and cancer are flawed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/30/pretty-much-everything-you-eat-is-associated-with-cancer-dont-worry-about-it/?hpid=z3

Stand Your Ground Redux

More craziness from the state of Florida. Sadly, is not limited to Florida. We have gun nuts galore in our country. There are too many people who believe things should always go their way and we permit them to carry guns. Walking talking disasters in waiting.

http://www.theroot.com/views/why-stand-your-ground-should-be-repealed

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/1129/Stand-your-ground-laws-Do-they-put-teens-in-greater-danger 

Also, an excellent article on why some may choose to stand their ground and why they probably should not be armed.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-seductive-dream-of-standing-your-ground/266052/

No-Face

Interesting insights on the No-Face character from "Spirited Away".

http://www.taopractice.org/dragonfly/2/pdf/05-NoFace.pdf

Secession

Latest thing in the news, post election, is regarding petitions being signed by citizens of red states to secede.
The media is having way too much fun with this.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-13-2012/post-democalyptic-world---whine-country

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-confederacy-of-takers/2012/11/13/d8adc7ee-2dd4-11e2-beb2-4b4cf5087636_story.html

LED Bulbs

The future in lighting are LED Bulbs.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/switch_led_bulb_the_long_awaited_light_bulb_is_finally_here_is_it_worth.2.html

International Test Scores

May be time to look at what they are doing outside of our country.

http://4brevard.com/choice/international-test-scores.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2012/1211/How-does-US-compare-in-math-science-reading-Younger-students-do-better?nav=87-frontpage-mostViewed

Election Aftermath

Atlantic article on how the conservative media has failed conservatives with insufficient information and worse, disinformation. To be continued...

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-conservative-media-lost-to-the-msm-and-failed-the-rank-and-file/264855/

http://harpers.org/blog/2012/11/angry-white-men/

2012 Presidential Election

From Harper's Kevin Baker:

"So yes, go out and vote. Go vote for Barack Obama, and whatever other democrats or progressives for office where you live. To vote for a Mitt Romney - to vote for the modern right anywhere in the West today - is an act of national suicide. The right is hollow to it's core; it has no dreams, no vision, no plans to deal with any of the problems that confront us, only infantile fantasies of violence and consumption. But it is, at the moment, well funded, well organized, and feeling especially threatened. It is capable of anything."