Who to Vote For

You see, you shouldn’t care whether a candidate is someone you’d like to have a beer with. Nor should you care about politicians’ sex lives, or even their spending habits unless they involve clear corruption. No, what you should really look for, in a world that keeps throwing nasty surprises at us, is intellectual integrity: the willingness to face facts even if they’re at odds with one’s preconceptions, the willingness to admit mistakes and change course.

And that’s a virtue in very short supply. Moar

My tweets

• Thu, 12:13: RT @Bipartisanism: Deaths from police shootings: America 458 Germany 8 Britain 0 Japan 0 #BaltimoreRiots #BaltimoreUprising http://t.co/J…
• Thu, 12:13: RT @LanguageLog: R.I.P. Jack Ely: Evidence that coherence is overrated — Sam Roberts, "Jack Ely, Who Sang the Kingsmen’s ‘Louie... http://t…
• Thu, 12:18: RT @lucidbrewing: Join us and @midwestbrewing to celebrate Homebrewing on Big Brew Day Saturday May 2nd at noon. #BFD2015 #mncraftbeer htt…
• Thu, 13:02: RT @StephenAtWar: Where were you when Worf shut GamerGate down? http://t.co/cls3gnGH7N
• Thu, 13:03: RT @scottedelman: My first short story collection is FINALLY out in paperback! https://t.co/wrltJjDNci
• Thu, 13:07: RT @tweetsoutloud: Goodbye, @MESSENGER2011. A life well spent via @13pt & @nytimes: http://t.co/vuNKUN4i5d <3 your robots. http://t.co/JBl…
• Thu, 20:00: RT @alex_macdonald: I will fight to support the Oxford comma until I draw my last breath. http://t.co/Y0T6c3F4iI
• Thu, 20:01: RT @TammyforIL: When Members of Congress debate women in combat, I look down at the stumps of my legs & wonder, where do they think I was -…
• Thu, 21:32: RT @TeaPartyCat: On this day in 1975 Saigon fell to the communists, but don’t feel bad, Ronald Reagan got America’s revenge on Vietnam by i…
• Fri, 06:05: Biologists discover the key mechanism that triggers human ageing http://t.co/wLuxzlUUcT #via @ScienceAlert

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