Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

19 November 2008

Buy Nothing Day

Midweek Curiosity:

Next Friday is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day of the year. It's also the day of an Adbusters protest: Buy Nothing Day. Worth being aware of — whether it's worth participating in is up to you.

10 November 2008

Bacon Beats Fries

In Colorado State Senate District 14, voters overwhelmingly chose Bacon over Fries. That's former educator and Democrat Bob Bacon v. businessman and Republican Matt Fries. Yes, it's real, I checked it out.

07 October 2008

Ranking candidates rather than voting

SciAm has an interesting article arguing that the wishes of the electorate would be better expressed by ranking candidates rather than voting for single candidates.