Cataplexis

…department today, we have this from The Economist
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OK, as promised weeks ago, Cataplexis wants to start looking at how the electoral college is shaping up for this year. For awhile, he was stuck in neutral—too many factors to consider, and where to begin?—so he decided to start simple. Read the rest of this entry »

So, if Santorum wins Ohio–and he damn well might–the cat shall surely be among the pigeons. Good for the cat.

So the latest RepubliBagger brainstorm is to drug test recipients of government money. Not the CEOs of corporations getting billions of dollars in contracts and subsidies, or government officials themselves. No, just folks applying for welfare or unemployment. You know, the ones who are really sucking the taxpayers dry. Read the rest of this entry »

As he awaits word that his car has been repaired, Cataplexis is sitting and blogging from a coffee shop. WiFi is a powerful draw.

The blogosphere has been alive recently with discussions of Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart. Cataplexis is still trying to figure out what he thinks of Murray’s core arguments, but he knows that he likes Nicholas Kristof’s take.

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Here’s a link to a better exposition of the PRRI survey of attitudes toward the contraceptive mandate Cataplexis reported on a couple of days ago.

Also, Cataplexis will be up with his first (very, very, preliminary) 2012 electoral vote analysis later today or tomorrow.

From Andrew Cohen at The Atlantic, who thinks the vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy will be decisive. Cohen thinks he’s likely to side with Prop 8’s opponents. Fingers crossed.

…but it is just downright funny.

Rick santorum has won three “beauty contest” Republican thingies, in the process picking up precisely zero delegates but engendering a new round of media speculation about the emergence of a new new right-wing alternative to the Mittster. Two observations. Read the rest of this entry »