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[owlmoose]

Today was tea and snackies and the library with SE, then dinner with T, then the new series of Top Chef -- is it too soon to say that this cast looks promising? Then Nate Silver was on The Daily Show, and can I just say how much I love that one of the emerging narratives from this election cycle is pundits versus mathematics, and by just how much mathematics is winning?

Also, it looks like we will have 20 women Senators in the 113th Congress, and while some part of my brain is yelling at me ("20%? That's a freaking disgrace is what that is, why are you so happy?"), the rest of me is very, very happy.

I will likely have more to say about these things when I am not sneaking in my post for the day before I have to run off to bed. 'Night, all.

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[lassarina]

20% isn't enough, but it's a damn sight better than anything we've had before. Both parts of your brain are right. (Mine is doing much the same thing.)

There are so many firsts this time around with regard to diversity in our representative government: first Asian-American senator, first openly gay senator, first disabled female veteran in the House, and first openly pansexual representative (I think that one might've been a state race). It makes me happy to see Congress slowly, slowly inching toward being slightly more representative of our nation.

[sarasa_cat]

I cannot even begin to describe how happy I am that mathematics isn't just winning, it's making all of the many math phobic people I know IRL have moments of reckoning over why statistical models are useful in a wide variety of applications.

(Although, bringing this back to Nate Silver and the power of reality, I hope this marks the end of the republican party as we have known them.)