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Jim Wright
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The world has gotten so bad that even the roses have to wear tin-foil hats.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Why do women love robots so much?

They're just more fun than you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Here's how I torture myself. According to likes on the DMaR feed, these are all about the same quality.
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
* But they consistently underestimate what's been happening.

They keep saying Reform has only 4 seats (They won 5 + a by-election, but two MPs have left) -- which smells like an intentional attempt to marginalize them.

They acquired 14% of the votes. More than the Lib Dems.

And...
September 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Now, how could you say no to this cover?

I'm not sure if I read the book before, even after rereading it, but the cover made a lasting impression.

Walter Velez, Mythnomers and Impervections (1987)
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
September 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
No, Pew! No! Bad Pew! Bad!

You cannot classify a county the same way for each census over the past fifty years.

Louden Co, VA, for example, has been fully suburban for the past 15 years, but was basically rural from 1970-1995.

My suburb was a swamp with a prison and a sugar farm in 1970.
August 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Pew discovers that despite rising population, we don't need more farmers to plow less land.
August 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Someone's been sleeping in our door.
August 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Best Sellers Rank:

#50,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#10 in Political Leadership (?)
#19 in General Elections & Political Process (?)
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A completely unrecognizable Redistricting Witch.

No one will ever know who this is.
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
What is the algorithm trying to tell me?
August 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Top posting is required.

Do not bottom post.

Do not post in-line.
August 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Let's get to it!
August 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
August 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Here's another way, maybe a fairer way, to look at the top graph using percentage of representatives/votes instead of seats.
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Since I get to talk about Gerrymandering and measurement, I decided to try to reproduce the top chart for Canada as a comparison (same metric, different country).

But looking through the last two decades of elections, I think the regional parties of Canada make this really difficult to compare.
August 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Does this tell a story?
July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you don't do your research, your message might change.

The change to the meaning here is superior to the intended, rather pedestrian, observation.

Or even the observation that the cartoonist can't count.

www.instagram.com/p/DMNzZbCAtG...
July 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In the next three which I'm almost done with, there is no Joe Leaphorn, except a mention of his name on a sheet of notepaper.

So, how many "earlier books" are there?
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I'm wondering how many of these books the Wikiguys read.

The series has:
(1) First three books focusing on Joe Leaphorn
(2) Second three books focusing on Jim Chee
(3) Next three have both. Ending with Talking God.
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM