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From the "everyone else is doing it, so why can't I"
department, here are my semi-regular musings. The thought of making daily
journal entries frightens me on a number of levels: there's no guarantee that every
day has something that demands writing about, and having things like spare time
can be nice. Instead, I'll be working to chime in every Sunday and Wednesday
evenings at the least, more when the muse strikes, and less when it doesn't.
Please note that the opinions expressed here are my own
and do not necessarily in any way represent those of my employer
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February 2008
January 2008
November 2007
October 2007
Oct 30 Drinking Liberally: Debate Watch Party Edition
Oct 29 Is It Worth It IV: Reader Response
Oct 21 The Future Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (PS3/Universal Remote Edition)
Oct 17 Is It Worth It III: Who Wins? Who Loses?
Oct 17 Is It Worth It II
Oct 17 Reasons To Show Up To Drinking Liberally
September 2007
Sep 21 Is It Worth The Money?
Sep 17 A Thousand Words
Sep 11 More Fuzzy Math From the Anti-Transit Flat-Earth Society
Sep 11 The Fuzzy Math of the Anti-Transit Investment Flat-Earth Society
Sep 4 Glug Glug
Sep 1 It's alive! IT'S ALIVE! [Thunder and Lightning]
July 2007
Jul 18 Sensibility Prevails ... For The Moment
Jul 17 Drinking Liberally, Filibuster Edition
Jul 16 Mr. President, I Suggest The Absence of a Quorum
Jul 3 I Think That Living Here Is Gonna Be Bad For My Lungs
June 2007
Jun 28 Go Hawks?
Jun 28 This Is Just Wrong
Jun 20 Local News Roundup
Jun 19 Medium Height Fruit
Jun 19 Blasphemy!
Jun 14 Roads & Transit
Jun 14 Pop!
Jun 12 The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (iTunes Stability Edition)
Jun 7 Driving Records
May 2007
May 18 Friday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
May 17 Waaaaah! or , the Fuzzy Math of The Politico
May 17 Senate Immigration Compromise
May 15 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
May 15 Oh, Wolfie. Oh, Wolfie.
April 2007
Apr 27 More School Stuff
Apr 4 School Districts and Big City Mayors
Apr 4 Wowsers
March 2007
Mar 25 The Future is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed (Apple TV & Internet Radio Edition
Mar 23 The Future is Here, it's Just Not Evenly Distributed (Apple TV & Monoprice HDX-501 edition)
Mar 21 Pile-On
Mar 19 Blogospheric Navel-Gazing Follow-up
February 2007
Feb 23 Forty Days and Forty Nights
Feb 18 Proposed Funding for Sonics Renton Arena/Stadium
Feb 16 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Feb 15 KeyArena Replacement Games
Feb 14 Violence Against Women
Feb 14 Back to the Drawing Board?
Feb 12 Well, That's the End of That
Feb 11 Useful (?) Corrections Department
Feb 11 Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your ... Empty Nesters?
Feb 7 Make. It. Stop.
December 2006
Dec 28 Friday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
Dec 18 Now We're Getting Ssomewhere
January 2007
Jan 27 In Memoriam
Jan 27 Saturday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
Jan 26 Progress?
Jan 22 Blog for Choice Day
Jan 19 Arena Games
Jan 19 Friday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
Jan 8 Committee Chair Term Limit Follow-up
November 2006
Nov 27 Reichert-Burner final results
Nov 26 Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) has Something in Common With a Very Important Person (Me)
Nov 20 Turkey Travels
Nov 18 Partisan Realignment Maps: Washington State
Nov 18 Partisan Realignment Maps: Missouri
Nov 18 Partisan Realignment Maps: Ohio
Nov 18 Partisan Realignment Maps: Virginia
Nov 17 Partisan Realignment Maps: Montana
Nov 15 Partisan Realignment Maps: Maryland
Nov 14 Partisan Realignment Maps: Tennessee
Nov 12 Partisan Realignment Maps: Pennsylvania
Nov 8 Election 2006: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Nov 7 Predictions
Nov 7 Vote!
Nov 1 Fun With Juxtaposition
October 2006
Oct 31 A Brief List of Things That Will Not Happen
Oct 27 Expanding the Map
Oct 10 More Cops in the Emerald City?
Oct 5 School Days
Oct 3 Glug Glug
Oct 2 Postal Voting: Not Perfect
Oct 2 More Wire Content (Because You Can Never Have Too Much Wire Content)
September 2006
Sep 19 Vote!
Sep 16 Vote! (Washington State 2006 primary edition)
Sep 15 Friday Shuffle!
Sep 14 September 12 Primary Results
Sep 9 Rememberances
Sep 8 Friday Shuffle!
Sep 7 A Sigh of Relief
Sep 6 From the Unintentional Irony Department
Sep 2 Ned Lamont and Chris Murphy
Sep 1 Enough Is Enough! I Have Had It With these Muthaf[_](|<ing Pundits in this Muthaf[_](|<ing Magazine!, or , Wanker of the Day: Martin Peretz, or , Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps! (Joe & Ann's Defence Weekly Edition)
August 2006
July 2006
Jul 28 There Are Times When I Wonder
Jul 25 What's the Matter with Arizona Democrats ?
Jul 25 Glug Glug
Jul 24 What'd I Miss?
June 2006
Jun 5 Busbymania
Jun 2 Goremania; Welcome to the '80s, England;
Jun 1 Big Media Nicholas
May 2006
May 31 Crumble, Crumble
May 30 Glug Glug
May 25 ?-? '12
May 23 Democrats Might Not Win All 50 States? Oh Noes!
May 23 Local Democracy Corps Polling
May 19 Dukakis Bush in a Tank an ATV
May 18 Nedrenaline
May 17 Believe, Part II
May 16 Dukakis Bush on a Tank an ATV
May 4 Friday Latin American Round-up, Chinchilla Blogging, & Shuffle!
May 4 Elsewhere
May 3 Podcasting Liberally
May 1 Signs I'm (Thankfully) Not Getting Old
May 1 There's a Reason I Stick To the Numbers
April 2006
Apr 29 Friday Latin American Roundup
Apr 25 The Value of Incumbency
Apr 25 On Parliamentarianism
Apr 25 More Common Good & Politics of Definition
Apr 24 Topics I Really, Really, Really, Cannot Comment On
Apr 22 Braves Outlook
Apr 22 Pushback, Part Deux
Apr 21 We're All in This Together
Apr 20 Key Arena Adventures
Apr 18 Patchwork Healthcare Insanity
Apr 17 Insanity
Apr 15 Agent Smith , Reincarnated as an Economics Professor
Apr 13 Friday Latin American Roundup, Chinchilla Blogging, & Shuffle!
Apr 12 Busbymania, or , The Fuzzy Math of Chris Bowers
Apr 11 Wake Me Up When September 1968 Ends (Special Protest Edition)
Apr 9 More Great Stuff from Peter Levine
Apr 7 Friday Crashing the Gate Blogging
Apr 6 The Somewhat Fuzzy Math of Howard Schultz
Apr 4 Free Beer
Apr 1 Opening Day
March 2006
Mar 31 Money Money Money Mo-ney
Mar 30 Friday Latin American Roundup, Chinchilla Blogging, & Shuffle!
Mar 29 Gunshots
Mar 29 Gregoire Polling; Immigration Follow-Up
Mar 28 Glug glug
Mar 27 Cut in Line? What Line? Play by the Rules? What Rules?
Mar 25 Kyoto and City Mayors
Mar 24 Friday Latin American Roundup, Chinchilla Blogging, & Shuffle!
Mar 23 Illinois Congressional Primaries
Mar 21 All Russ Feingold All The Time
Mar 15 Russ Feingold: Willing Martyr
Mar 15 Vacation Photos
Mar 13 The Infinite Reach of the American Farm Lobby
Mar 13 Politics as a Social Institution
February 2006
Feb 24 Friday About-to-go-on-vacation Blogging
Feb 23 Stadium Woes
Feb 21 I Want my Wire DVD
Feb 20 Mendacity
Feb 17 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Feb 15 The Worst News Story, Except for All the Others
Feb 14 Hackett for ... Nothing
Feb 10 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Feb 9 Fear Is The Mind Killer
Feb 8 It's the Opponents
Feb 7 Good Culture from the Extraction Business
Feb 5 Loyalty
Feb 3 Productive Party Discipline; The Fuzzy Math of Ned Lamont
Feb 1 I Saw That Too
Jan 31 The Big Issues of the Day
January 2006
Jan 31 Preemptive SOTU Pushback
Jan 30 I'm It!
Jan 30 One of These Things Just Doesn't Belong
Jan 29 Bigger Media Nicholas
Jan 19 Joe, Joe, Joe
Jan 17 The Fuzzy Math of CBS News
Jan 13 Exploiting the "Crazy Quilt"
Jan 11 Joe Lieberman: A Popular Guy
Jan 10 Things I don't understand
Jan 8 Terrorists ... in .... spaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Jan 3 Lie Down With the Dogs, Wake Up With Fleas
Jan 3 Progress
Jan 2 Strategy vs Tactics
Jan 1 Most Played Songs of 2005
December 2005
Dec 31 What'd I Miss?
Dec 23 The Lighter Side
Dec 23 Craven Appeasement Victory Watch, or , The Fuzzy Math of Donald Rumsfeld
Dec 21 Saved (For Now)
Dec 20 The Curse of Amateurism
Dec 19 At Last!
Dec 16 Koufax Award Nominations
Dec 15 Headline Writing
Dec 14 City Council President Richard Conlin
Dec 11 Brilliance
Dec 10 Aeon Flux
Dec 8 Ouch. Just. Ouch.
Dec 7 Something is Amiss in the State of Connecticut
Dec 7 Drinking Liberally
Dec 5 More BAR content
Dec 1 Hirschman Redux
November 2005
Nov 30 Non-withdrawl
Nov 28 More Tipping Point
Nov 24 Gobble Gobble
Nov 23 Mr. Summers, Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone
Nov 22 Pop Quiz
Nov 20 Least Favorite Movies
Nov 18 Wheel Removal
Nov 17 This week in Cynicism
Nov 15 Why Does George W. Bush Hate Cattle Ranchers?
Nov 12 I Made This
Nov 12 My Life is Now Complete
Nov 10 Election Stragglers
Nov 8 Election 2005: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Nov 8 Vote Today!
Nov 3 What to make of the Kaine-Kilgore race
Nov 3 Alito Night Music
Oct 31 Drinking Liberally: "Port Battle"
October 2005
Oct 31 Nail in the Coffin (Hopefully)
Oct 27 Vote!
Oct 21 Friday Northern State Blogging
Oct 19 The Fuzzy Math of Republican Budgeting
Oct 18 Cherry Picking (The Fuzzy Math of Ivo Daalder)
Oct 16 Being Poor Is Expensive, Still
Oct 14 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Oct 11 The Death of Irony
Oct 10 Stop Snitching
Oct 7 Friday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
Oct 7 Dear Conservative Legal Scholars and Intellectuals
Oct 4 Five Minutes with an (Above) Average Legislator
Oct 2 Adventures in Headline Writing
Oct 2 You Heard it Here First
September 2005
August 2005
Aug 30 It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
Aug 30 What is Plan B for Mark Warner?
Aug 29 This Isn't Happening
Aug 25 Friday Shuffle!
Aug 25 The Bankruptcy of Conservative "States' Rights" (Part 1 in an unending series)
Aug 23 Wake Me Up When September 1968 Ends
Aug 22 The Slightly Fuzzy Math of the Washington Monthly
Aug 18 Friday Chinchilla, Shuffle, & N'awlyns Blogging
Aug 18 Nixon Goes to China (21st Century Mediterranean Edition)
Aug 17 Civic Participation Roundup
Aug 16 Glug glug
Aug 15 Department of Useless Information
Aug 14 Where Democracy Goes to Die
Aug 13 It's a Small World After All
Aug 12 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Aug 11 Firings and Hirings
Aug 10 Only Human
Aug 8 Blogging: Still Harder Than It Looks
Aug 6 Elsewhere ...
Aug 5 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Aug 3 The Grocery Store Conundrum
Aug 2 Believe
Aug 2 Paul Hackett Day
July 2005
Jul 30 Information Flows and Large Organizations
Jul 29 Friday Shuffle!
Jul 27 Business as Usual for Tom DeLay
Jul 26 Low-Income High School Wonkery
Jul 26 "Comprehensive Energy Legislation"
Jul 25 Blogging: Harder Than It Looks
Jul 23 Guest gig
Jul 22 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
Jul 20 The Great Feebate Debate, Part Eight
Jul 20 Public Opinion on Reproductive Rights
Jul 15 The Connector Conspiracy
Jul 15 Harry Potter and the Operational Nightmare
Jul 13 Five Minutes With the Average Legislator
Jul 12 Drinking Liberally
Jul 8 Friday non-Shuffle! (Special God Save the Queen Edition)
Jul 5 Independence Day Traditions
Jul 4 The Young and the Restless
Jul 1 Saturday SCOTUS Blogging
Jul 1 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
June 2005
Jun 26 This Week in Blogs
Jun 25 David Simon's Grand Scheme
Jun 22 The Fuzzy Math of the U.S. House of Representatives (?!?)
Jun 21 Yo-ho-ho and a Mug of Brew
Jun 19 Ow
Jun 17 Can We Talk About the Weather?
Jun 14 Glug glug
Jun 12 Two Comma Congressman
Jun 11 No, seriously, Barack Obama for President
Jun 8 Political Operative Geek Heaven, Part Deux
Jun 7 My Life, Chapter 3
Jun 4 More great quotes from Robert F Kennedy.
Jun 2 The Fuzzy Math of Matthew Yglesias and Edmunds.com
Jun 1 Things I Never Expected To See
May 2005
May 31 Why are we making this harder than it really is?
May 25 I got nothing.
May 24 Grown-up Republican Watch
May 23 Shorter Rudy Giuliani Commencement Address
May 18 The New York Times' Fuzzy Math
May 17 Michael O'Hare's Fuzzy Math
May 17 Glug Glug
May 13 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle!
May 11 Duty calls
May 7 What Presidential Leadership?
May 7 UK Election Wrap-Up, Part 2
May 6 Friday Chinchilla Blogging and Shuffle!
May 5 British Invasion
Apr 30 Law and Medicine: Wrap-up
April 2005
Apr 30 Law And Medicine: Sweden
Apr 29 Friday Chinchilla Blogging & Shuffle
Apr 28 Absotively
Apr 27 In Which I, Nick Beaudrot, Claim to Have All the Answers
Apr 24 Offense Wins Championships
Apr 23 Law and Medicine: Japan
Apr 21 Law and Medicine: Germany
Apr 21 Law and Medicine: Canada
Apr 20 Law and Medicine: United Kingdom
Apr 20 Medical Malpractice Policy: France
Apr 17 Yeah, That's About Right
Apr 16 The Electoral Math of Social Security, or , Karl Rove's fuzzy math, part #870
March 2005
Mar 26 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game! (Special Terri Schiavo Edition)
Mar 14 Bush's Non-proliferation Non-initiative
Mar 13 U-Snub
Mar 12 Thanks, but no thanks
Mar 8 Glug Glug
Mar 5 Belated Saturday Shuffle! Blogging
Mar 4 Friday Snowboarding Blogging
February 2005
Feb 26 My Life Feb 26 Friday Chinchilla Blogging
Feb 23 I've been looking for one of those.
Feb 20 Real Life Intrudes
Feb 20 My Life Feb 18 J. Bradford DeLong, Soft on Education
Feb 18 Friday Chinchilla Blogging
Feb 16 Islamic Law vs Talmudic Law
Feb 11 Friday Chinchilla Blogging
Feb 10 !#@!(%,&6!
Feb 7 My Life Feb 4 Political operative pig heaven!
Feb 4 Friday Chinchilla Blogging
Feb 2 Karl Rove's fuzzy math, part #869
Feb 2 Does the President Support the Assault Weapons Ban?
Feb 1 Multipolarity and Global Risk
January 2005
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
September 2003
October 2003
July 2003
June 2003
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