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4:24 PM yesterday Amelia commented on The Democrats Have 60 Votes in the Senate for Health Care Reform.

The weird confidence of the pro-reform D senators (PRDS) who said they'd get the 60 votes. Maybe the PRDS also weren't sure and calculated they would benefit short-term in interviews by acting like they had their party under control and were responsible for any positive outcomes, while long-term any anti-reform D senators who prevented the 60 votes would look like the bigger bastards.

Nate Silver said the anti-reform D senators (tARDS) weren't united in a bloc as in the House, and were easier to deal with because each opposed reform for different reasons.

Nov 16 Amelia commented on Only 46 Days Left in the Decade.

Whoops, should have hit "Save changes."

The theme for W's administration should be "underwater," BECAUSE:
Hurricane Katrina, millions of mortgages, waterboarding, much of the world as a result of W's environmental policies, but also the sense of "après moi, le déluge" and possibly even the location of Dick Cheney's secure undisclosed. (US Naval Observatory?)

Nov 16 Amelia commented on Only 46 Days Left in the Decade.

The theme for W's administration should be "underwater."

Nov 15 Amelia commented on The Northern Front.

Commenting this often is evil, but: it's nice to be interested. About those guns. You can use guns to impress local opinion swayers. Sometimes a gung, or making fun of MLK day, is a password to a wannabe mafia.

Nov 15 Amelia commented on The Northern Front.

@7: DW, maybe you haven't heard enough about the background negotiations. When Wal-Mart happened to my flailing hometown, WM made sure they purchased land slightly outside key boundary lines. My county was already impoverished, what with one thing and another, but incurring a Wal-Mart involved unbelievable infrastructure investment.

Small-town downtown businesses likely to survive post-Wal-Mart? Tattoos, secondhand stores, Christian bookstore/pizzerias, funereal "monuments." Of course, Appalachia isn't Alaska. My town didn't even have coal. It did have an amazing hunting supply store, which unfortunately succumbed to the natural urge for retirement. (P.S. If Savage retires, I will google him. Badly.)

Nov 15 Amelia commented on The Northern Front.

@5: According to my CC classes, Chile under Pinochet involved opportunities for the worst of the torturing worst but also for Milton Friedman's Chicago experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boy…). Which stabilized Chile, relatively speaking, and remains imperfect, in need of adjustment.

Nov 15 Amelia commented on Moths Ate My Marriage.

@26: Sorry, but I walked downstairs in my beautiful cheap B&B in that gorgeous (UNESCO-protected) town and ordered a coffee and it was everything that makes me weep about Seattle coffee. And when I say weep, I mean tear my hair, sackcloth and ashes, rend my garments. It's good to get out.

Nov 15 Amelia commented on The Northern Front.

Love the witnessing! About the gov't... am currently taking community college poli sci classes and my instructor would say the current administration is maximizing, or increasing, debate. This means the ignorance of the electorate will be abated on key issues such as Af-Pak and health insurance reform, Obama will not let himself be rushed into lose-lose decisions, Obama will let bullshit arguments be heard and then be heard countered, and after the right decisions are reached they will be considered more democratic. More democratic in a theoretical way the instructor thinks he got to but forgot to discuss actually.

Nov 13 Amelia commented on In Sickness and In Health.

Catch-22, 52-80. For a man to be charming and attractively intelligent, his mom must have been super skilled at raising him despite the culture's traditional lack of help. Good luck escaping that.