Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs
The random musings of a Nashville engineer on anything at all
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
November 2014 Election: State Legislature
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Again, I'm copying and pasting some information from my posts on the primary elections. Unfortunately, there's not much thinking to ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
November 2014 Election: US House TN-5
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There are three candidates for US House this fall, and very little chance that the incumbent will lose. I already described two of them in m...
Monday, October 20, 2014
November 4 2014 Election: Wine Referendum
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Right now it is not legal for grocery stores in Tennessee to sell wine. Beer, yes, but not wine. I suspect this is a hold-over from prohibit...
Sunday, October 19, 2014
November 4 2014 Election: Amendments
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There are four amendments to the Constitution of Tennessee on the ballot this election. For each amendment to be passed, it must earn both ...
November 4 2014 Election: Governor
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Given the field, I consider it a foregone conclusion that Haslam will win a second term as Governor of Tennessee. Voting to affect the outc...
Friday, September 12, 2014
Infrastructure Megaprojects: Mosquito Eradication
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Mosquito-borne diseases kill a million people every year. Admittedly, most of those aren't in the United States, which is what this p...
Friday, September 5, 2014
Infrastructure Megaprojects: Jobs
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Over the last fifteen years the American middle class has been gutted. Unemployment, while dropping slowly, is still high. Underemployment...
Friday, August 29, 2014
Infrastructure Megaprojects: Education
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Once everyone in the country has broadband access, education is utterly revolutionized. It's just a question of structure at that point...
Friday, August 22, 2014
Infrastructure Megaprojects: Communication
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Think about what your life would be like without a phone, without television, without internet access, without books, without music. Reall...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Why the votes for Charlie Brown must have been random
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I wrote previously, suggesting that Charlie Brown won his primary due to people who voted for the first name on the ballot. Another writer r...
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