Jerry, the Mander

Of all the manderings out there, gerrymandering is by far the worst. It changes the composition of legislative bodies in a way disproportionate to the voters’ choice for a ruling party. Let me repeat that: Newton’s Method of solving complex equations CAN encounter local minima and maxima rendering it useless. The trick to gerrymandering is […]

How They Could’ve Avoided a Government Shutdown

Make wages of congressional representatives inversely proportional to how stupid they are acting. Any representative who offers an amendment that kills more than ten Americans will be bikini-waxed. Lock the doors and begin flooding the chamber. Show congressmen films of functioning congresses so they can better understand what one looks like… […]