“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, January 17, 2016

Obstructionism << Gerrymandering and How to Fix It

Look what happens when a computer draws congressional district boundaries based on geographical proximity (the no-brainer way of doing it, which is hardly ever done any more). The irony, as the chap explains in the video, is that the more districting favors a party, the less wiggle room the representative has, and the more political inertia builds up, negating the impulse behind the gerrymandering. Thanks Rick Muller! And here's the article.




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