Author: Stable Genius

I am the very model of a Stable Genius Liberal.

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Four adults are killed in Benghazi and the right-wing politicizes it endlessly. But 20 small children are slaughtered in Connecticut and the nation is told to do nothing. Waiting for the good guys – Roger Simon – POLITICO.com

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in the 18 years before tougher laws were passed, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia…and none in the 10.5 years afterwards. The results of tougher gun laws in Australia Yet the claim that people who want guns will find a way? Why?

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Republicans are demanding ever deeper spending cuts, but they won’t detail with any meaningful specificity what those cuts should be, and they insist they can solve our revenue problem via eliminating loopholes and deductions, but they won’t detail with any meaningful specificity what those should be, either. By contrast, Dems have detailed their demands —… Continue reading Untitled

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A deterministic finite automata (DFA) for all the different ways to spell Chanukah. ilovecharts: A deterministic finite automata (DFA) for all the different ways to spell Chanukah. And if you’re a regular expression geek, it’s (Ch|H)an(n?)uk(k?)a(h?) – Avidan Ackerson 

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All the “fiscal cliff” nonsense is just acknowledging that contractionary policy is contractionary. That all the serious people have been advocating contractionary policy for years seems to have been lost. Maybe we take the next step and learn that expansionary policy is expansionary. Eschaton: We’re All Keynesians Now

Climate Change Deniers Write Another Fact-Free Op-Ed

Climate Change Deniers Write Another Fact-Free Op-Ed

The letter itself is based on a single claim. So let’s be clear: If that claim is wrong, so is the rest of the letter. Guess what? That claim is wrong. So blatantly wrong, in fact, it’s hard to imagine anyone could write it with a straight face. It says: “The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years.” This is simply, completely, and utterly false.

Worth a read.

Alan Grayson: Walmart is ‘the largest recipient of public aid in the country’

Alan Grayson: Walmart is ‘the largest recipient of public aid in the country’

“The taxpayer pays for the earned income credit,” he said. “The taxpayer pays for Medicaid. The taxpayer pays for unemployment insurance when they cut hours down. And the taxpayer pays for other forms of public assistance like food stamps. I think the taxpayer is getting fed up of paying these things when, in fact, Walmart could give every employee its got, even the CEO, a 30 percent raise and still be profitable.”