Michael Bates: October 2009 Archives
World's Eeriest Abandoned Places - Lehigh Acres, Florida
My wife's parents owned a vacation home here for a time.
Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Very informative article, with lots of maps as examples, cases in several countries, and methods for combating the practice.
Duverger's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In political science, Duverger's law is a principle which asserts that a plurality rule election system tends to favor a two-party system."
Welcome - Haus Germana Kapeller
I think this is the Privatzimmer where my wife and I stayed while visiting Salzburg in September 1990. It is one of several B&Bs on Kasern Berg, north of the city, up a hill from the Salzburg Maria Plain station. The home page mentions that they show Sound of Music in the breakfast room in the evenings and another page mentions being able to catch the Sound of Music tour bus. Let's Go Austria and Switzerland describes the hostess as "lively, gregarious," which fits my recollection.
Field of Schemes: Winston-Salem: Okay, that stadium didn't work out so well
Public-private ballpark partnership turns into a totally public $48.7 million burden on the taxpayers, on the heels the failure of a 2004 $250 million Dell Computer subsidy -- Dell is closing and laying off over 900 employees. When will cities wise up and stop playing at the corporate welfare casino?
ConservativeHome's Platform: Bernard Jenkin MP: The bomb that was meant to kill Margaret Thatcher
25 years ago: Remembering the IRA terrorist attack on the Conservative Party conference in Brighton
A British documentary about the ways in which the making of the classic film was intertwined with the real-life underworld.
Brendan Nyhan: Will 2010 be like 1994?
In the comments to this post, veteran congressional election analyst Charlie Cook has been looking at the district-by-district situation in the House of Representatives and says the situation is "very serious" for the Democrats and that "it is very clear that the party's vulnerability exceeds their margin of 40 seats." (Via Wizbang.)
Basil's Blog: Andy Williams and the Health Care Bear
Basil has a classic TV take on a the singer's recent comments about President Obama. In this photo-cartoon, Cookie Bear's knocking on Andy's door with a new scam, and he's got Bob Hope to help.
