The London Review of Books is looking for an editor, preferably one with an interest in politics and history. Would suit a young, disaffected academic.

The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously on all counts against Joe Miller's challenge of last month's U.S. Senate election, saying Miller's interpretation of the law would erode the integrity of Alaska's election system.

"There are no remaining issues raised by Miller that prevent this election from being certified," the Supreme Court justices declared in their 24-page ruling.

This should be the conclusion of one of the most interesting Senatorial elections in history. It would have been a good time to live in Alaska because politics would have been the talk around every water cooler, coffee shop and fishing boat.

"We just want the passengers to understand: Look, we're not perverts or anything like that; we just have to search everything," said Rick McCoy, the senior TSA officer at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. "We're not here to be abused. We're just here to help you get on your flight and go about your business."

New police chief in Mexico (a former General) fires almost his entire police force of 600 cops due to corruption. Then he lets 300 reapply. Only one passed the honesty tests.

Merry Christmas/Happy Hannukah/Festivus/Whatever

Enjoy the holidaze everyone.

First stop, the Bureaucracy wiki page...we're seeing the dangers come home to roost, both public and private....and I've been spelling it wrong for years:)

Competences can be unclear and used contrary to the spirit of the law; sometimes a decision itself may be considered more important than its effect;

Nepotism, corruption, political infighting and other degenerations can counter the rule of impersonality and can create a recruitment and promotion system not based on meritocracy but rather on oligarchy;

Einstein put it most succintly...

"Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work"

And the big bummer, Kafka thinks we're screwed no matter what we do...

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves
behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."

The multi-generational household is back.

Given that, it seems kind of short sighted to dismiss all of the current policies as republican ideas.

Eliminating the ability to take credit for the inevitable seems like a poor choice.  Better to promote how your preferred policies helped the inevitable to happen.

I'm totally ignorant of how all this works and haven't done too much research yet as its not an immediate concern, but rather something I'll be looking at over the next year.  I'm thinking of going back for chemical engineering so any credits I already have (I have 3 years of an English degree, but not worth finishing imo as I don't plan on going to graduate school) are basically useless, it would be a full degree.  Just looking to see if anyone here has done it, I'm mostly interested in the availability of student loans if you've been out of school for a few years.

From Sacramento

Meg Whitman's former lead spokesman is starting to speak up about the candidate's losing race for governor. And he's shouting about the need for Republicans to stop the demagoguery over illegal immigration.

Senior advisor Rob Stutzman isn't exactly spilling his guts about the former EBay chief's spectacular thumping. The billionaire lost to low-budget Jerry Brown by 54% to 41%, despite spending a record $160 million-plus, roughly $142 million of it her own money.

But the veteran Republican strategist is blaming the mini-landslide size of Whitman's loss on some ugly dust-ups over illegal immigration that alienated Latinos from the GOP.

On Nov. 2, a record 22% of the California electorate was Latino. They voted heavily for Democrat Brown -- somewhere between 64% and 80%, depending on which poll you believe.

Whatever the real figure, it should scare the GOP because Latinos are by far California's fastest-growing voter group.

"Republicans need to understand that they live in suburbs with second-generation Mexican American neighbors whose parents came here and worked in agriculture and the service industries and are very proud" of their families' success, Stutzman says.

"They sit around at cocktail parties and they listen on talk shows and hear their parents referred to as 'illegals.' And we wonder why these people don't want to register as Republicans."

Stutzman, 42, is no RINO -- what right-wing ideologues deride as a Republican in Name Only -- even if he did serve as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's first communications director. His party credentials include communications jobs with former Atty. Gen. Dan Lundgren and state Senate Republicans. He also ran a successful 2000 initiative campaign to ban same-sex marriage.