Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Miscellanea: Mystery Pollster to the Rescue Edition

The Mystery Pollster, as you might guess, knows quite a bit about polling. He's got all the information you'll ever need on that ABC News Terry Schiavo poll. His conclusion? Well, go read it yourself, lazy! (hat tip to RealClearPolitics)...

The Hobbesian Conservative links to this piece in New Scientist. Very entertaining and informative...

At Right Question, our friend Clint bemoans the 'fact' that not only can we not debate reasonably, we can't even decide what a fact is any more (of course, I'm not even willing to concede his basic premise...I refuse to be hemmed in by someone else's conception of 'reality')...

ABC continues to feel the heat over their own little document fiasco...

The whole brouhaha over the FEC and its rumoured 'blogosphere' restrictions has entered a new phase: a draft document has been produced. It seems to pretty clearly exempt blogs published at home without compensation, but gets a little murky beyond that. At this point, we can be thankful there are so many bloggers who are lawyers, as well, as the Democracy Project reminds us. Here's what blogging law professor Eugene Volokh thinks about it; Pejmanesque is starting to get a tad concerned, while Kevin at Wizbang is somewhat relieved...

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