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Jim Morin in The Miami Herald, Feb. 28
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The Good News: It’s the 540th birthday of Copernicus, the scientist who first realized that the Earth revolved around the sun, and not the other way around.
The Bad News: Upon discovering that President Obama supports this idea, House Republicans now reject it. -
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These weapons have NOTHING to do with self-defense. It’s all about fetishizing violence. Grow up, America!
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So the NRA’s answer to gun violence is for taxpayers to provide an armed guard in each school. Okay, fine. There are 98,000 public schools. If we pay an armed guard $50,000 per year, that comes to 4.9 billion dollars. There are about 9 million guns sold per year. So, unless the NRA is willing to allow each gun sale to be taxed $544 to actually PAY for their brilliant plan, they should pretty much just STFU.
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Chris Howard: America really looks like this - I was looking at the amazing 2012 election maps created by Mark Newman (Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012 ), and although there is a very interesting blended voting map (Most of the country is some shade of purple, a varied blend of Democrat blue and Republican red) what I really wanted was this blended map with a population density overlay. Because what really stands out is how red the nation seems to be when you do not take the voting population into account; when you do so many of those vast red mid-west blocks fade into pale pink and lavender (very low population).
So I created a new map using Mark’s blended voting map based on the actual numbers of votes for each party overlaid with population maps from Texas Tech University and other sources.
Here’s the result—what the American political voting distribution really looks like.
Now THIS is the most accurate map that I’ve seen, and it is fascinating.
I hope Knoxville is that little blue-violet splotch.
This is A LOT less stressful to look at.
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