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I always find it incredibly phony (if not devisive) when cadidates say "God bless America." That's something that you'd only genuinely say if you were moderately to very religious, which most of the candidates never are. I think they always think they have to say it to seem like "they got religion too," which is dumb.

Quoted: At the beginning of 2007 there were 38 things candidates could mention in public that wouldn't be considered damaging to their campaigns, but now they are mostly limited to 'Thank you all for coming,' and 'God bless America,'" ...

Details on the forthcoming Facebook profile changes.

time to pack up and turn the horses homeward. yeehaw.

Quoted: WASHINGTON — Apart from George McGovern, a plainspoken man who knows something about losing elections, not a single Democrat of national stature publicly urged Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday to end her campaign for the White House. They didn't have to. There was no shortage of other ways to signal, suggest, insinuate or instigate the same thing.

Excellent article raising a lot of points about measuring inequality and using a quantitative index to assess qualitative concepts...

Quoted: Inequality is important, but the way we measure it is stupid.

While this raises some good points about stupid questions people ask vegetarians (and even stupider assumptions that are made), I'm annoyed that it doesn't even consider religious/cultural vegetarians.

Quoted: Every vegetarian remembers his first time. Not the unremarkable event of his first meal without meat. No, I mean the first time he casually lets slip that he's turned herbivore, prompting everyone in earshot to stare at him as if he just revealed plans to sail his carrot-powered plasma yacht to Neptune.

I love data analysis...and I love reading James!

Quoted: Recently, I've become intrigued by the demographics of social network websites. By now, of course, they're nothing new. The early networks (Classmates.com as...

My article on "A Dream in Doubt," a documentary on post-9/11 anti-Sikh violence in the U.S., and on an anti-Sikh hate crime that took place on I-5 in Seattle. Sad.

Quoted: In the years following September 11, 2001, America has struggled to make sense of a tragedy, turning a scrutinizing eye at the country’s role in world affairs and its immigration policies. In one form, this scrutiny has morphed into an attempt to seek out and retaliate against a tangible “enemy.”

a decent analysis of the dem situation

Quoted: Scientists pinpoint a reason why people with Indian ancestry may be more prone to weight problems.