By popular demand, Politics Thursday.
* Health care madness: Olympia Snowe says she won't vote for cloture if there's a public option in the bill, while Ben Nelson says he'll support an opt-out. (By my calculations this once again makes Joe Lieberman the Most Important Person in the country.) It seems clear we'll get some sort of health care reform, but its specific content is still really unpredictable. Fingers crossed.
* Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Daggetmentum has topped 20%, with Jon Corzine now slightly leading Chris Christie as a consequence.
* Nate Silver crunches the numbers on the marriage equality referendum in Maine and concludes it all comes down to turnout.
* When You Marry: a 1962 handbook.
* Ryan's Facebook feed had this link to a random manifesto generator. I now feel ready for any particular revolution that comes along.
* T. Boone Pickens explains why the U.S. is "entitled" to Iraqi oil. Could anyone have doubted it?
* And an increasing number of Americans want to legalize it.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
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