You know it's campaign season when...

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:18am

...on a lighter note, the incumbent inserts his own name into the biographies of every president since Coolidge (Gerald Ford excluded, for some reason). No narcissism there, folks.

Drifting

Submitted by Platosearwax on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 3:42pm

How does that old saying go: If you are young and not liberal you have no heart. If you are old(er) and not a conservative you have no brain. Is that how it is? I am too lazy to google it. Anyway, this has been on my mind lately, or at least in a thematic way. It all stems from my Facebook feed.

 

Saving Penguins Open Thread.

Submitted by mmghosh on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 7:11am

The bad news: the GRACE data now available shows accelarating ice loss in the polar ice caps and glaciated regions (though not, comfortingly for us, in the Himalayas, which seem to be collecting enough snow precipitation to compensate).

 

Fizzle

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 2:46pm

Amitai Etzioni summarizes it well:

Given that Occupy Wall Street has not advocated any specific ways to reduce inequality and does not have the political organization to back up such an agenda, either others will have to find ways to curb inequality or we will see little progress on this front in the great budget battles to come shortly after the 2012 election.

The American dream.

Submitted by mmghosh on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 9:36pm

In our family we had always known that my engineer grandfather had emigrated to the USA before WW1 - to the Detroit area, we think - where the newly developing automobile industry had employment opportunities.  Why America?  Emigration to the USA was unusual for people from here - Britain and Europe was the natural region.  

 

'Romney Doesn't Drink?!' Political Ad Competition

Submitted by catchy on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 4:55pm

It has been pointed out that Mitt Romney does not drink alcohol and that this could be a weak point for his election chances given that many Americans like to knock one back from time to time. In fact, many Americans like to get well sloshed and wonder what kind of stick a person has up you-know-where not to. 

 

With that in mind, theforvm, in conjunction with Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., is announcing a competition.

 

Trial of the century...

Submitted by Platosearwax on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 2:59pm

...at least in Norway. The trial of Anders Behring Breivik began yesterday and as The Forvm's only member residing in Norway (to my knowledge) I thought I would open up a thread for discussion and questions, as I may be privy to a bit more detailed information than you all are getting.

 

Abstraction and Fragility

Submitted by HankP on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 2:54am

Abstraction really is a marvelous thing, it allows one to understand and manage complex constructs whose details can overwhelm.

Oh Ricky We Hardly Knew Ye

Submitted by HankP on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:05pm

Santorum Suspends Campaign

 

Unfortunately, this seems to be tied to the fact that his daughter isn't doing very well. She was just released from the hospital, but has Trisomy 18, which is a horrible genetic disorder. She's likely to continue to have severe medical issues.

 

Pet Theories...

Submitted by M Aurelius on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 8:50pm

So I was thinking, the other day, about a vital topic, as they say.

 

What is a good size for a new TV? 40" seems good for a small room, yet 3:4 (legacy) content looks really small, as if on a 21" set.

 

That is, if you letterbox it with dark stripes on the sides. But a lot of people don't do this. They use a mode where the image is stretched. So everybody looks fat.

 

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