February 2012
10 posts
Interesting take from Jonathan Chait on why the Republican Party swung hard-right after great failure in 2008:
A strategy of managing slow decay is unpleasant, and history is replete with instances of leaders who persuaded themselves of the opposite of the obvious conclusion. Rather than adjust themselves to their slowly weakening position, they chose instead to stage a decisive confrontation....
CNN’s Political Team Has It Covered →
A brief (hypothetical) snippet from CNN’s debate coverage.
WatchRicky Gervais, on Daily Show to promote new show, actually just talks to Stewart about panda sex.
Kickstarter - Double Fine Adventure →
I had to join this campaign, even though it’s already funded. Tim Schafer’s adventures are some of my all-time favorite games (e.g. Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle), and he wants to do an old-fashioned one here.
Get an extra 5GB of Dropbox space
Dropbox is beta testing some new clients that include automatic camera upload functionality. If you install one of these new builds and use the feature to upload a ton of new photos and/or videos, they will increase your storage limit up to 5GB above your current threshold. The files have to be new to Dropbox, and the videos can’t be too large; not sure what the cutoff is, but my guess is...
“We can look at this, sure, although I think we have a pretty good system set up...”
– FEC Chairman Caroline Hunter (R), on the rules that let Super PACs to hide their donors for up to 7 months.
Jonah Goldberg of the National Review wonders aloud whether they’ve got themselves a dud:
As a bunch of us have been writing around here for a while, the under-emphasized dynamic in this race isn’t that Romney isn’t conservative enough (though that’s obviously a real concern out there) it’s that he’s simply not a good enough politician. He may be the most electable on paper. He’s...