Political Forecaster Nate Silver Talks About Being Gay.
I’ve been blogging a lot about the poll quants — Nate Silver being the King of the Quants — over on my marketing blog recently.
NO IDEA HE WAS GAY.
How did I miss this? I mean, I’m a freakin’ rabid fan, too! HA! That’s what you get for getting too wrapped up in the numbers, I guess!
Good on ya, Nate.
Oh, this is just as gas! I love it when young people take the bull by the horns and mount great things like this. Reminds me of some stunning work done with teens when I was the with the (late and lamented) Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.
H/T to Stephen Fry’s Twitter. Go figure!
Again, something terrific started by Dan Savage. This is a blog thanking mostly straight people for helping to ensure marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington in Election 2012. It’s a terrific scroll-through.
Thanks to you Dan & Terry for all you continue to do!
But the country is changing. And this may be the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to play — on a national level, at least — the cards of racial exclusion, of immigrant fear, of the patronization of women and hegemony over their bodies, of self-righteous discrimination against homosexuals. Some in the Republican party and among the teabagged fringe will continue to play such losing hands for some time to come; this shit worked well in its day and distracted many from addressing any of our essential national issues. But again, if they play that weak-ass game past this point, they are fools.
via David Simon | Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal.
David Simon is bang on. This is a lovely post. Also, he’s an amazing storyteller. You’ve probably enjoyed a lot of his writing for television and never even known it.
Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, “What went wrong?”, they should ask themselves a question every bit as important: “Why were we the last to realize that things were going wrong for us?”
U.S. President Barack Obama walks onstage with daughter Sasha (2R), First lady Michelle Obama (2L) and daughter Malia (L) before giving his election night victory speech in Chicago, November 7, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
This is a great piece in The Atlantic. Worth spending a few minutes thinking about.
New York Public Library to Open Charles Dickens Exhibit – GalleyCat.
I love Dickens. I’m not a Dickens freak, but I’ve been involved with Dickens adaptations in the theatre for more years than I can count.
Funny Dickens Christmas show : here
One-Man Dickens Christmas show script: here
Truth in advertising …. the first one is my company. The second one is written by a great friend — and was directed two years running by my business partner.
I’ve marketed both.
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