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In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling, the Seattle Public Schools are wrestling with the idea of using income instead of race as a “tiebraker” when deciding high school admission: Currently, Seattle’s Open Choice system allows students to choose their schools. Several popular — and mostly white — high schools have waiting lists [...]

Ok, so I’m a few days late to this party, but let me just reiterate that the graph below, is, indeed, awesome: Quick takeaways? Coal and Petrol are both big sources of energy, and also really inefficient.

I don’t normally read him, but today’s Charles Krauthammer column is about the energy bill, so I subjected myself to it. Here’s what I was rewarded with: Apart from the safety issue, there is the issue of cost. Car prices will rise. That could in turn drive one or all of the Big Three U.S. [...]

According to Marc Ambinder anyway. Despite honking it on Meet the Press, a mediocre performance in the debates, and Ryan Lizza’s skewering in The New Republic. Richardson seems like an eminently likable guy. But his style is sloppy and very un-presidential. He needs some fit-and-finish work, which may come with time.

Elizabeth Edwards’ pro-gay marriage views are welcome, of course, but aren’t they a little convenient? It’s pretty obviously a way to wink at the gay community and signal support while her husband barnstorms South Carolina talking about how he’s “uncomfortable” with the issue. I suppose it’s pretty clever, as base-winking goes. Much better than the [...]

Got a phone call this morning from a old friend of mine, Dan Grant.  IIRC, Dan was last seen over some enchiladas suissas at one of Austin, TX’s many fine TexMex eateries.  Now, Dan’s running for Austin’s congressional seat. Check out Dan’s site.  Some really interesting stuff there.  And if you can find it in [...]

If I could curse on this blog, I would curse about the effin’ record industry: No, music fans, there isn’t a problem with your Web connection — it’s just that many Internet radio stations are deliberately offline today. Many Web-based music services and some conventional radio stations that offer Internet audio streams are scheduled to [...]

Remember that story we all read a while back about how the Sunni tribal chiefs were so sick of al Qaeda they were siding with the U.S. to fight terrorists? Remember how awesome that sounded at the time? Well, it looks like al Qaeda got the memo, too: More than 40 people died today in [...]

The U.S tries soft power against Iran, hedge funds and private equity firms get in trouble, and finally: it’s the auto industry versus Congress in an energy bill smackdown! Links mentioned: the Iran pieces are here and here. The articles on Bear Sterns and subprime mortgages are here and here. The latest on the energy [...]