It represents a particular election result; guessing which one should be easy.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
OK, I feel Vern’s pain at possibly never knowing the answer given the untimely announcement of my death, so I’ll give a big hint:
This is a cartogram.
It weights geographic areas (such as states or counties) by population so as to give a map that more accurately represents the visual difference between items, such as candidates in an election.
Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
http://www.refseek.com
– Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
http://www.worldcat.org
– a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com
– access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
http://www.bioline.org.br
is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org
– volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
http://www.science.gov
is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
http://www.pdfdrive.com
is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names. [warning flag as to its legality]
http://www.base-search.net
is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Nick Gerda wrote, in the story currently on our sidebar, “OC Now Has Its First Democrat Majority on Board of Supervisors in Almost 50 Years”.
The VOC’s writer, copy editor, and Editor-in-Chief should know that if you want to say that three Democrats being on the five-person Board makes a majority of Democrats, even when one of them votes with Republicans, that would make a “DEMOCRATIC” majority, not a “DEMOCRAT” majority, FFS! “Democrat majority” is the kind of thing that Diamond and Silk would say!
I use “Democrat” that way too, I like the brevity and percussiveness and fail to see why Democrats take it as an insult. Makes us look thin-skinned and petty.
But I do get tired of people calling Chaffee a Democrat. Or explaining away his venality and valuelessness as “moderation.”
Well, you’re in some bad company there. Bob Dole used to talk about “Democrat wars” (i.e., ones we entered while Democrats held the Presidency) because “Democratic wars” sounded like wars agreed upon democratically. Karl Rove decreed that Republicans should always call it “the Democrat Party” because he said it sounded harsher and more awkward, but I think it was to take away its identification with the principle of “democratic rule.”
Screw them. While “Republican” is both a noun and an adjective, “Democrat” is a noun referring to a party member and “Democratic” is an adjective referring to the party. I’d be shocked if journalistic stylebooks didn’t agree.
I don’t care what company I’m in, I like economy of syllables, and I don’t like being part of a Party that would say, “Mommy, he used Democrat as an adjective!” No wonder they love “owning the libs.”
Also it frees up “democratic” to refer to a method of government.
But I think we’ve had this debate in previous years, so I’m ready to stop.
This link provides insight on how School Superintendents speak in private to his librarians when instructing them to remove “controversial” books (from school libraries). Interestingly, he foists much of the responsibility for banning books on the cultural conservatism of their county and state’s Governor.
A few things struck me as especially interesting:
(1) He claimed that books were being removed because, essentially, of “sexuality.” Yet books presenting situations involving heterosexual sex — like Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” “Othello,” and “As You Like It” — are (so far as I can tell) not banned, because only queer sex is coded as “sexuality.” Not a novel insight, but good to remember.
(2) The absence of books from school library shelves is considered not to be a problem because the books could be obtained from the county library. Oh … really? In that conservative county?
(3) Absolutely no weight is given to the likelihood of inducing self-loathing and self-harm among queer students. If it happens that queer students’ being cut off from information about their own social (even short of sexual) interests leads to suicides, that’s seen as just being their own problem. (I suppose that if it turns to homicides, then it would become everyone’s problem — to be met with repression and suppression.
These discussions are taking place in many Orange County districts — some, like the Placentia-Yorba Linda district, with new conservative majorities. Those in such districts who are keeping tabs on their administration are welcome to contact us with tips about the repressive choices they may make.
It appears to be a “caricature” map of the United States.
Not a “caricature,” but you’re on the right track.
OK, I feel Vern’s pain at possibly never knowing the answer given the untimely announcement of my death, so I’ll give a big hint:
This is a cartogram.
It weights geographic areas (such as states or counties) by population so as to give a map that more accurately represents the visual difference between items, such as candidates in an election.
This makes a lot more sense out of McCarthy’s Speaker of the House ordeal last week:
[From sciencebookclub.com]
Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
http://www.refseek.com
– Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
http://www.worldcat.org
– a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com
– access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
http://www.bioline.org.br
is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org
– volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
http://www.science.gov
is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
http://www.pdfdrive.com
is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names. [warning flag as to its legality]
http://www.base-search.net
is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
This too should be read!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/small-local-paper-uncovered-and-reported-george-santos-scandal-before-november-election
Nick Gerda wrote, in the story currently on our sidebar, “OC Now Has Its First Democrat Majority on Board of Supervisors in Almost 50 Years”.
The VOC’s writer, copy editor, and Editor-in-Chief should know that if you want to say that three Democrats being on the five-person Board makes a majority of Democrats, even when one of them votes with Republicans, that would make a “DEMOCRATIC” majority, not a “DEMOCRAT” majority, FFS! “Democrat majority” is the kind of thing that Diamond and Silk would say!
I use “Democrat” that way too, I like the brevity and percussiveness and fail to see why Democrats take it as an insult. Makes us look thin-skinned and petty.
But I do get tired of people calling Chaffee a Democrat. Or explaining away his venality and valuelessness as “moderation.”
Well, you’re in some bad company there. Bob Dole used to talk about “Democrat wars” (i.e., ones we entered while Democrats held the Presidency) because “Democratic wars” sounded like wars agreed upon democratically. Karl Rove decreed that Republicans should always call it “the Democrat Party” because he said it sounded harsher and more awkward, but I think it was to take away its identification with the principle of “democratic rule.”
Screw them. While “Republican” is both a noun and an adjective, “Democrat” is a noun referring to a party member and “Democratic” is an adjective referring to the party. I’d be shocked if journalistic stylebooks didn’t agree.
I don’t care what company I’m in, I like economy of syllables, and I don’t like being part of a Party that would say, “Mommy, he used Democrat as an adjective!” No wonder they love “owning the libs.”
Also it frees up “democratic” to refer to a method of government.
But I think we’ve had this debate in previous years, so I’m ready to stop.
Fine, foff.
Cue finale of Seinfeld…
This link provides insight on how School Superintendents speak in private to his librarians when instructing them to remove “controversial” books (from school libraries). Interestingly, he foists much of the responsibility for banning books on the cultural conservatism of their county and state’s Governor.
A few things struck me as especially interesting:
(1) He claimed that books were being removed because, essentially, of “sexuality.” Yet books presenting situations involving heterosexual sex — like Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” “Othello,” and “As You Like It” — are (so far as I can tell) not banned, because only queer sex is coded as “sexuality.” Not a novel insight, but good to remember.
(2) The absence of books from school library shelves is considered not to be a problem because the books could be obtained from the county library. Oh … really? In that conservative county?
(3) Absolutely no weight is given to the likelihood of inducing self-loathing and self-harm among queer students. If it happens that queer students’ being cut off from information about their own social (even short of sexual) interests leads to suicides, that’s seen as just being their own problem. (I suppose that if it turns to homicides, then it would become everyone’s problem — to be met with repression and suppression.
These discussions are taking place in many Orange County districts — some, like the Placentia-Yorba Linda district, with new conservative majorities. Those in such districts who are keeping tabs on their administration are welcome to contact us with tips about the repressive choices they may make.