I still blame the potential zombie apocalypse and the presence of Sith on this one :P
(For those that don't know Sith are the zelouse force users in the Star Wars universe, with it being common to come up with over the top plots) On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > This was fun: > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html > > Where the suicide caucus lives, republican congressmen and mitt romney won > last fall with double digit margins, the population is > 80% white, and > there's not a chance in hell of those gerrymandered districts going any > other way for quite a while. They aren't the majority of the GOP, but > they're essential to maintaining the GOP majority in congress, so they, 79 > white men and 1 white woman, blackmail the rest of the GOP, the GOP > blackmails the rest of the government, and Glen gets to eat his > non-refundable travel expenses. So it goes. > > I actually don't think that Steve Pearce's district in southern new mexico > is really that white, but they do have a lot of republican latinos down > that way. > > This > http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/how-did-conservatives-get-this-radical/ > was > also interesting, > > James Sidanius, a professor of psychology at Harvard, working from a > liberal perspective, uses a > measure<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1> > he > calls “Social Dominance Orientation” to > describe<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1> > “the > extent to which one desires that one’s in-group dominate and be superior to > out-groups.” > > > -- rec -- > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> NIH and NASA are shut down, while NSA is up. Science is the first victim. >> >> -J. >> >> Sent from Android >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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