Yesterday, Sunlight Labs announced Apps for America 2. The follow‐up contest marks the recent launch of data.gov
by soliciting apps that find interesting ways to crunch that site’s numbers. (Not sure if I’ll enter yet; I haven’t had much time to see what data.gov has to offer.)
Oh, by the way: I will continue to post the occasional bit of political opinion (and political silliness) on this site. But I’ve also started to write more sober analysis on the Filibusted blog. It’s going to be an eventful year in the U.S. Senate — hop on for the ride.
In case you don’t follow Louisiana politics (and why don’t you? it’s hilarious): Republican David Vitter — prostitute patron, hypocrite, and general‐purpose jackass — is up for reelection in 2010. He’ll face a legitimate challenge from the Dems, but a grassroots movement to give Vitter a GOP primary challenge is getting pretty hot and heavy. Award‐winning adult film actress Stormy Daniels is considering a run; she kicked off a “listening tour” today in her native Baton Rouge. I hope she will do the right thing for the state of Louisiana and for my general amusement.
Here’s the short version: I made a site called Filibusted that just won Sunlight Labs’ “Apps for America” contest.
The Republican proposal, as you might expect, doesn’t actually have a health care plan. But it does have this: “Republicans will be on the side of quality versus mediocrity, affordability versus unsustainable debt, and freedom of care versus bureaucrats in control. And we will be on the side of patients, doctors, and the American people.” They are also in favor of good things rather than bad things, moving forward rather than going backwards, the hobbits rather than the orcs, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but something people need to understand about the current state of American politics is that Rep. Mike Pence (R‐IN) is not a smart man. He lacks intelligence.
Shorter Rich Galen: ‘President Obama has made the fatal mistake of suggesting a means of governance contrary to that of a fictional character in a novel.’
Given Mr. Rove’s public statements that he does not intend to comply with the subpoena, I am puzzled as to why Mr. Rove needs a mutually convenient date to fail to appear.
After the human race is enslaved by robots, there are going to be small rebel groups hiding out somewhere and Elliot Spitzer’s going to be writing op‐eds about how “no one could have predicted” that the robots would rebel and overthrow their masters. And it’ll be left to DFH bloggers to observe that this is in fact one of the most widely predicted scenarios in all of science fiction.
Minnesota’s recount is a long way from over. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to predict the winner, I would tell you to shoot me.