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And this is the thing about impeaching a president. we have actually brought articles of impeachment against so few presidents in our nation's history that when it happens, it's so big it ends up being the kind of thing that just sucks all of the light and all of the air out of every other news cycle. i mean, it's the news cycle version of a black hole. the nixon itt scandal is the example of that sort of thing that would have been huge news, potentially presidency-ending news, had it not been overshadowed and lost down inside the impeachment black hole. instead it's ended up being barely a bl...

Control of the car. some even claimed that airbags were not sold on a buick lesabre, the model he was interested in. that was also not true. because of relentless pushback like that, airbags did not become mandatory in this country until 1998. and that was because the u.s. supreme court ruled unanimously in favor of the safety requirement. since that ruling airbags have saved at least 44,000 lives. imagine what that number could have been had that safety feature been mandated sooner. well, today we got another story along that same vein. this one involving the airline industry. when airplane m...

When airplane manufacturers sell their planes, they charge airlines extra for things like premium seating, special lighting and extra bathrooms. but it turns out they also charge the airlines extra for other things. por ejemplo, according to the "new york times" boeing charges extra for a backup fire extinguisher in the cargo hold. that same report says that aw brazilian airline carrier was forced to pay $6,700 extra for oxygen masks for its crew. then there's this. the "times" reports that as the pilots of the doomed boeing 737 jets in ethiopia and indonesia fought to control their planes the...

And i know i have yelled about how terrible they are for a long time. but because nothing i do actually affects them, they continue to market themselves as a news brand thing. and i didn't think it was possible, but over time they have gotten even worse at what they were already failing at. por ejemplo, last week in discussing the return of prisoner of war bowe bergdahl we played some old footage from the rescue of the first american p.o.w. who was rescued in war time since world war ii, and that of course was jessica lynch, who was ambushed along with her nans company on the third day of the ...

And how bureaucracies work. complexity is also used as a tactic in politics. deliberate obfuscation, making something seem more complicated than it is can be done to political effect. por ejemplo, the scare chart. a graphical representation that is made to look deliberately complex in order to scare you about that issue. this is called the organizational chart of the house democrats' health plan, otherwise known as obama care. this was put together by the house republicans back in the health reform debate days. look how complicated. isn't it awful? let's add more boxes and lines to make it see...