Alan Simpson Just Asked Me to Leave Rich People Alone

By: Thursday April 28, 2011 3:16 pm

I’m feeling pretty guilty. I hadn’t known I was causing billionaires so much suffering. The former co-chair of President Obama’s deficit (a.k.a. catfood) commission just asked me during a public event to stop going after rich people. Then he came up to me after the event to make sure I’d gotten the point.

Election 2010: FDL Community vs. the Professional Prognosticators

By: Tuesday November 2, 2010 7:40 am

With all the entries in Firedoglake’s Election Projection Challenge now in, I decided to see if the aggregate projections of the FDL community can outperform the professional political prognosticators.

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