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Pretty much exactly as I predicted… The top-two primary system has elected a moderate in a heavily-Republican district. And as we have seen for several years since the system was also instituted in California, replacing radical dems and goppers with moderates in both parties.
………”Newhouse’s victory over Didier in Yakima may be the clearest evidence yet that a top-two primary system can work to marginalize, rather than incentivize, the political fringe.”
Just as they did a century ago, the Pacific Coast states are leading the way in rejecting narrow partisanship and the cheats of the political caste, eliminating gerrymandering and making parties far less important as districts vote more for individuals who speak to voters like grownups, instead of sheep, to be whipped up with fear.
What Washington State Can Teach Us About Gridlock In ‘The Other Washington’
Central Washington’s sleepy Yakima Valley, perhaps best known as the nation’s top producer of hops and apples, is a safely Republican region. But it may have al…
Every director needs a ruthless editor. Here’s the 3-hour The Hobbit movie that Peter Jackson should have made. This cut restores the original plot of the Tolkien book and removes all the added characters and the inserted foreshadowing of The Lord of the Rings that wasn’t in the book.
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Now There’s A Three-Hour Cut Of The Hobbit Trilogy
Just in case a four-hour version of an eight-hour trilogy was still too long for you, professional video editor David Killstein has now gone and made an even more drastic cut of Peter Jackson’s overblown Hobbit adaptation. |
Scotland, where the average IQ is a bit higher than ours.
Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) - What Is It & Why Is It Controversial?
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is more commonly referred to, is the process by which underground rock is fractured by a highly pressurized fluid containing water, chemicals and sand.
Hey Mark I think this is for you 😛
When you have to fight competition using these methods you know you have the inferior product. This sucks, British chocolate is WAY better.
WoW pubs its full 6.1 patch notes…
Am I the only person who doesn’t like to let other people use my smart phone? To me it’s like my purse, I wouldn’t want someone going through my purse either. Am I weird or does anyone else feel this way too?
Eight years ago or so we had cable, when we had it, I never watched the news. I found it depressing. Aside from the weather almost everything on the news was a depressing story about something bad that had happened, might happen or was going to happen. Watching it just brought me down. When My husband lost his job and became long term unemployed we cut down on our bills by getting rid of cable. It was probably the best decision we ever made, to this day we don’t miss it at all. Having the internet I’m still able to keep up on current events and If I want to I can always watch streaming news, but I rarely do. I read my news. I use an RSS reader (feedly) and subscribe to the news that interests me. Everyday I read new articles about Tech, local events, gaming, and I even subscribe to some cooking blogs to get new recipes.
What I really enjoy about reading my news instead of watching it are viewing the comments of people. Being able to engage in conversations with people who are interested in the same things as I am really adds to the experience. You don’t get that on television. Of course there are the occasional “trolls” but for the most part what you get is a wide variety of opinions on the topic at hand.
The other thing I like about reading my news, is that It’s curated to me. I don’t have to sit through sports news (something I have absolutely no interest in) to get the information I actually want to hear. So yeah these are the reason I prefer to read my news, over watching it on television.
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