bondegezou - If you look at the graph in the article again, you'll see that the largest drop in proportion of Republicans in journalism came between 2002 and 2013, from 18,0 to 7.1 percent, long befo… (View Post)

Off topic (but some will find this amusing): Las Vegas is looking forward to a huge number of weddings on the 31st. Why? Because, using the American convention, the date can be written 123123. Which … (View Post)

Going back to an earlier comment: The US was involved in WW II in the Atlantic in a low-level way, before Pearl Harbor, because we were escorting convoys. We even lost a destroyer, the Reuben James. … (View Post)

A little more on that communtation: "Just before Christmas in 1921, [President Warren G.] Harding, a conservative and mild-mannered Republican, commuted the 10-year sentence of the Socialist [Eu… (View Post)

Off topic: Since SSI2 is here, I'll repeat my request that he give us an account of the recent Seattle elections. (I think the results are instructive, and provide hope for democracy, even in places … (View Post)