One thing I really dig about Twitter is the fascinating links people share.  Today I got into a discussion with Kevin McCann about a snippet from this TED talk on moral foundations and the difference between liberals and conservatives.
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
The speaker’s point was we live out our collective [...]

I’ve made comments on a number of occasions that I’m not sure whether I’ll end up voting for McCain or Bob Barr.  When I have, I have received DMs via Twitter, e-mails, and text messages with much the same comment, “If you vote for Barr, you’re just giving the election to Obama.”  True enough.  That [...]

When I was 10 years old, I discovered politics.  I was glued to coverage of the 1980 Carter/Reagan race and began asking my folks a lot of questions about politics.  One of the first questions I asked - and I suspect one of the first questions anyone asks about our system - was “What’s the [...]

I’ve joked (ok, at least partly joked) lately that I may have trouble deciding whether to vote for Bob Barr in the election this November.  While I think McCain (as compared to Rudy, Romney, and Huckabee) was the best alternative left in a pretty weak deck after Thompson failed to ignite, he’s no great shakes.  People [...]

I found this really amusing.  I was searching for the source of this quote, which I have seen attributed to both Alexander Fraser Tytler and Alexis de Tocqueville at various points.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from [...]