Figures.

Apparently the Republican idea of campaign-finance reform is to make it harder to fund 527 groups. Because, y'know, moveon.org is the real heart of the ethics problem.

(Via Talking Points Memo.)


Remember all those alarmist pieces about voting machines? Well, they may have been right.

The error caused Tarrant County to report as many as 100,000 votes in both primaries that never were cast, dropping the local turnout from a possible record high of about 158,103 voters to about 58,000.

Because the errors added votes equally for each candidate, the glitch did not change the outcome of Tarrant County races but narrowed the margin of victory in some statewide races.

And in other news, the inventor of the cubicle apologizes. (Interesting. I didn't know that a Herman Miller employee invented them. We have the modular HM furniture in our office, although we don't have cubicles, thank goodness.)