Wednesday (Short) Miscellany!
May. 28th, 2014 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxomai- The Princeton Election Consortium --- think of them as Nate Silver's geekier, more rigorous competition --- puts the chances that the Democratic Party will continue to control the U. S. Senate after this year's mid-term elections at 67%. That's not very good odds, and of course, they're subject to dramatic change.
- A great breakdown of the assumptions, and dangers, of the Pick-Up Artist (PUA) mindset, here. The denizens of PUAHate.com might hate the PUAs, but they never question the mindset; and that is both their biggest mistake and the biggest reason why they're dangerous.
- How
Roe v. Wadea conservative agenda of protecting segregated schools and denying Carter a second term led to the creation of the Religious Right, here.
