Undernews: December 13, 2013

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Morning line

The Progressive Review's moving average shows Republicans stand to pick up 2 new Senate seats and could pick up 2 more. Democrats could pick up one more Senate seat. Thus the current Democratic 8 point margin could be reduced to 0 to 6.

Democrats stand to pick up 3 governor seats; could gain 3 more. GOP could gain 5

Net: Democrats not doing well a

Psychological society defends physician aid in dying

Raiding Detroit's art

Recovered history: America's last successful invasion

Most college profs are now adjuncts

NYC cops will stop at nothing

Don't tell the US Postal Service about this

Obomb of the day

Religion notes

Maine voters indifferent to Michaud's gayness

Norway public library putting all its books on line

Word: The Volker Rule

Another reason to boycott Britain: British university bans protests

Hagel order Pakistan to stop protests

NSA spying hurting Silicon Valley

Great moments in the law

The real Hillary Clinton

Half of renters pay 30% of income on rent

Scientology lawsuit update

Obama and Kerry's game in the Mid East

Detroit could be just the beginning

Recovered history

So you think NSA is bad. . .

The US Navy, which has just revealed the latest development in stealth drone technology, is using a logo for its unmanned aviation program that literally features the Angel of Death, clothed in a black cloak with a hood, holding aloft a large scythe.

Morning line
Republicans stand to pick up 2 new seats and could pick up 2 more. Democrats could pick up one more Senate seat. If all this happened, the Democratic lead would be reduced from 8 to 1.

Democrats stand to pick up 4 governor seats; could gain 2 more. GOP could gain 5

Recovered history

Bruce Springsteen pulled over for speeding in 1978

Word
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time. -Martha Graham

Pocket paradigms
The democratic franchise, while greatly broadened from a time when only propertied white males could vote, has lost its depth. We have, in effect, more people sharing less power. Take, for example, the New England town meeting, often cited as a model of direct democracy, in which each enfranchised resident had a voice and a vote in the proceedings of the community. By the 1990s the term's meaning had been completely turned on its head: now it is a meeting, perhaps nationally televised, in which citizens of a remote, impermeable government listen to, and are cynically manipulated by, an official or candidate. All three key elements of the original town meeting -- community, decentralized power and direct democracy -- have decayed and disappeared. - Sam Smith

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