Sounds like a Ponzi scheme: over the top multiplying of leverage. -- Owen
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > ============================================================ > 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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