Weekend link dump for November 18

Why the House seats the Dems won this year may be more durable than the ones they won in 2006 and 2008, while the Senate remains a challenge.

The Satanic Temple is not messing around in its lawsuit against Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

It’s MythBusters, but with kids. Really smart kids.

“There’s a better solution, which involves bringing America into line with other mature democracies, where national legislatures naturally conform to a clear pattern: Their size is roughly the cube root of the country’s population. Denmark, for instance, has a population of 5.77 million. The cube root of that is 179, which happens to be the size of the Folketing, Denmark’s parliament.”

“After this year’s developments, Georgia or Florida or Texas Democrats are very unlikely to return to the old blue dog formula of running white statewide candidates who cling to the center or center-right on issues while expecting minority voters to play along in order to keep Republicans out of office.”

The Peanuts tradition of drinking root beers with Bill Mauldin on Veterans Day.

RIP, Douglas Rain, actor best known as the voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Some Game of Thrones Christmas sweaters, for that extra bit of oomph at your office holiday party.

RIP, John Rogers, longtime president of Comic Con.

“Every medical professional practicing in the United States has seen enough gun violence firsthand to deeply understand the toll that this public health epidemic is taking on our children, families and entire communities.”

RIP, Stan Lee, iconic Marvel Comics dude. See here for about a million social media tributes, including many amazing photos.

Don’t disaappoint Alex Trebek. What has Alex Trebek ever done to you?

Also, don’t let your domain registrations lapse.

“Think of it is as the scientific equivalent of Indiana Jones swapping a golden idol for a bag of sand. After the redefinition, a kilogram will remain a kilogram, but its value will rest on far stranger foundations.”

“The truth is that most House Republicans will feel more comfortable in the next Congress because they will never be strong-armed to vote for federal spending on anything. They won’t have to decide how to divvy up money within our federal agencies and departments. They can just go back to opposing everything the federal government does, and that’s what conservatism is really all about. That’s how it evolved and developed in the 20th Century, and they don’t know how to actually govern nor do they really want to govern.”

“Law schools make all sorts of deals with dubious people in the name of cash.”

“It’s worth pointing out that the map is still quite gerrymandered. But I think an underappreciated aspect of that is you had districts that elected incumbents that were good fits for the [Republican] coalition that existed — but no longer worked as well when the 2016 realignment happened.”

William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist who authored The Princess Bride.

RIP, Roy Clark, country musician and host of TV’s Hee Haw.

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One Response to Weekend link dump for November 18

  1. The Satanic Temple is all wet, as I said on Twitter. Baphomet can no more be trademarked than other deities or demons in the common realm. Since that’s who the Knights Templar stood accused of worshiping, he’s in the common realm.

    For those who don’t know, The Satanic Temple doesn’t believe “he” actually exist. Really, they’re Randian-type libertarians who shade anarchist and see Satan as a symbol of that. This is all about nutbars seeking PR.

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