I’ve received my postal ballot, in advance of the June 8 British election. As with so many elections, it demonstrates, glaringly, Continue reading “Yet again the need for Approval Voting”
Category: politics, voting
First They Came for the Muslims
A pick of the signs at today’s massive London rally. Continue reading “First They Came for the Muslims”
Three Million
This isn’t just a gray patch, it’s a large number of dots. I hope you can see them.

Wrong way, World
America, having elected its first black president, could have gone on to Continue reading “Wrong way, World”
Brexit Sequel
A graphic cribbed from a newspaper, with three annotations by me. Continue reading “Brexit Sequel”
It Makes Me Smart
A fine, resounding ambiguity! A clanger of an ambiguity! I think it’s better even than my previous favorite, “The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries.”

Ground Rules
When you do me the honor of contributing a comment to this blog, I get a message asking me to “approve” it, which I always do. Continue reading “Ground Rules”
Refugees Welcome
That was the simplest and commonest version of the placards held up by the folk marching through London yesterday from Hyde Park to Parliament Square.

Approval Voting experiment
The lesser of two evils: that’s what many American voters Continue reading “Approval Voting experiment”
Five thousandths of a percent
Apple pays five one-thousandths of a percent in taxes.