“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a… 2

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“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a Miami documentary filmmaker and avid election night Twitter user, said with a smile. “We’re now an irrelevant laughingstock.”

We've been doing this for more than two centuries, why do we still have such a hard time getting it right?

Florida’s Votes Unclaimed, but Less Depends on Them
Just as in the 2000 presidential election, the results of Florida’s voting were still up in the air the day after Election Day. The difference is that in 2012 it doesn’t matter.


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My friend +Jonny Lieberman at +Motor Trend Magazine pits the new +Ford Motor Company C-Max…

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My friend +Jonny Lieberman at +Motor Trend Magazine pits the new +Ford Motor Company C-Max hybrid against the +Toyota USA Prius V and comes away preferring the C-Max. The Prius V is more fun to drive than the classic Prius hatchback but the C-Max is even better with a much nicer interior, better performance and more passenger space although it does give up some cargo volume to the Toyota. Jonny even really liked the MyFord Touch system better than Toyota's Entune. 

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It's the battle to see which hybrid is best: the 2013 +Ford Motor Company C-Max, or the 2012 +Toyota USA Prius V. Which is your pick?

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I know plenty of well meaning people with truly conservative beliefs but they are…

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I know plenty of well meaning people with truly conservative beliefs but they are ill-served by their media choices.

" there's no cost to broadcasting or publishing inane bullshit. In fact, it's often very profitable. A lot of cynical people have gotten rich broadcasting and publishing red meat for movement conservative consumption."

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Good read why living in a filter bubble of Fox News and gang will have left some conservatives wondering what happened.

How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File
Nate Silver was right. His ideological antagonists were wrong. And that’s just the beginning of the right’s self-created information disadvantage.

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A big thumbs up to the voters of Maine, Maryland and Washington for pushing back… 3

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A big thumbs up to the voters of Maine, Maryland and Washington for pushing back against the bigots and fear mongers and realizing that same-sex couples are not a threat. 

Maryland voters approve gay marriage, Maine poised to do so
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Maryland voters approved same-sex marriage on Tuesday while similar measures in Maine and Washington state also appeared on track to pass, marking the first time marriage rights h…


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The best parts of the election results was the wide ranging repudiation of those… 1

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The best parts of the election results was the wide ranging repudiation of those super-wealthy that tried to use their financial resources to get the outcomes they wanted including Matty Maroun, Linda McMahon, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers and the rest that managed to cloak their identities through the super-pac system.  We still need some serious reform of the finance system probably through a constitutional amendment but at least we all survived to fight another day. 


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Way back in 2009 when I spent a week with a European-spec +BMW 123d I praised the… 1

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Way back in 2009 when I spent a week with a European-spec +BMW 123d I praised the powertrain's performance and efficiency but lamented the fact that it wasn't available in the US market and more specifically in the 3 Series.  

http://green.autoblog.com/2008/08/05/in-the-autobloggreen-garage-2008-bmw-123d-3-door-hatchback/

BMW's 1 Series is a great driving machine based on the the higher volume and much praised 3 series. Unfortunately despite the shorter wheelbase and significantly compromised interior packaging it was only about 100 pounds lighter than the 3.

I closed out my review then with the wish that BMW would offer it's marvelous turbodiesel four-cylinder in the US market 3 series wagon, combining the great dynamics of the 3 sedan with some reasonable utility and great fuel efficiency. It looks like that car will finally be arriving about a year from now. 

Leaked: BMW diesels coming to the U.S. in 2013-2014
A leaked shot of an internal BMWNA Powerpoint presentation confirms a previous report we published in August: starting in 2013, a wide range of BMW diesels will make their way into the U.S. market.

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If the cable companies really gave a damn, they would look at changing their business… 2

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If the cable companies really gave a damn, they would look at changing their business models and forcing the networks to unbundle all the channels we don't want to watch or pay for.  Stop forcing those of us with no interest in watching sports to subsidize Disney and ESPN and don't make us pay for stuff like the Golf channel. Let us create our own bundles for a reasonable price.

Cable companies want to ‘re-energize’ TV with new Silicon Valley research center
Cable TV executives are to establish a new research center in the heart of Silicon Valley to try to halt the emerging trend of “cord-cutting,” according to Reuters. CableLabs, a non-profit research……

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