Archive for October, 2007
Duverger’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No shit! Err… duh.
The discovery of this tendency is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist who observed the effect and recorded it in several papers published in the 1950s and 1960s. In the course of further research, other political scientists began calling the effect a “law” or principle. Duverger’s law suggests a nexus or synthesis between a party system and an electoral system: a proportional representation (PR) system creates the electoral conditions necessary to foster party development while a plurality system marginalizes many smaller political parties.
Duverger’s law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tags: politics
Add comment October 27, 2007
I Park Like An Idiot – You suck at parking! Let the world know it!
So simple, so funny, and relatively inexpensive. Low-tac bumper stickers to carry in your car for those inevitable experiences with bad drivers.
I Park Like An Idiot – You suck at parking! Let the world know it!
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Iraqi adviser: Blackwater shooting unprovoked, guards must go – CNN.com
Blackwater, a company of mercenaries, without rules of engagement. Frustrating that modern day Hessians have emerged. This is not an American problem, the world has let it happen. I fear a resurgence of the Middle Ages and the Crusades, bloody murder based upon idealism and money.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked the U.S. State Department to “pull Blackwater out of Iraq,” after an Iraqi probe concluded that the private contractors committed unprovoked and random killings in a September 16 shooting, an adviser to al-Maliki told CNN.art.blackwater.car.afp.gi.jpgA man bicycles past a car on September 20 that was damaged during the September 16 Blackwater shootings.But in Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the department has received “no specific request” from Iraq to withdraw the company’s contractors.
Iraqi adviser: Blackwater shooting unprovoked, guards must go – CNN.com
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Tags: iraq, blackwater, murder, hessians, war
Add comment October 16, 2007
Flock is Alive again
Beta software is, well, beta. My Flock install took a dump after an unusual blue screen error on this laptop. Weeks of bouncing back and forth on the support forums finally led me to performing a profile deletion and fresh install. I hope the issue from before does not arise again. I can’t bring myself to Blog the old fashion way, without Flock’s built-in tools. So here I am again, blogging away.
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