Two quick ones that caught my fancy:
- Australia’s The Age does some actual reporting, unlike some of us, er, blogs: Chinese X-file not so mysterious after all
- America’s most Gerrymandered districts, by Dimitri Rotow, as decided by an algorithm for “crinkliness”. (Context here.) The things we let our politicians get away with…. Here’s the area around Atlanta:
Yes, those are two contiguous zones. Why not just go with proportional representation?
China Redux: Seems a lot of effort to go and build something like that just to run over and destroy it with tanks !?!
Think that ‘reporting’ got a bit of spin from the authorities.
Since this blog has delicately wrestled with political issues lately, I’ll note as a proud American that both major parties share equal blame for this particular miscarriage of democratic justice. Hence, the suspiciously high re-election rate of our congress-people in the House of Representatives which, if nothing else, gives the Jon Stewarts and Stephen Colberts of the world a never-ending source of material.
But it’s good to see Dimitri has found another set of windmills to tilt at. (As a Manifold license holder, of course I say that with affection).
BT