In 1802, Alexander Hamilton, one of the original architects of the electoral college, was so displeased with how it was being executed that he helped draft a constitutional amendment to fix it. Since then there have been more than 700 efforts to reform or abolish it, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Driving to Alameda to get a Christmas tree, KALX was playing a whole set dedicated to Micky D's McRib - I hereby dub the Christmas the "McRib Christmas" and I'm going to make a McRib ornament for the tree!
I only wish they had succeeded in abolishing it at the time, as far too many Americans have this anachronistic belief that was true back then must be true today. The Electoral College is a travesty and is unique in the world in being ridiculous.
"How Gilmore Girls characters would respond to the pandemic" (a thread)
Lorelai - makes her own masks from old concert T-shirts, has re-watched every movie made before 1950, uses Covid as an excuse to get out of Friday Night Dinners, but then has to Zoom into them
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Cal Men's Basketball beats USF on a last second shot. USF earlier beat #4 Virginia. Transitive property and all that.
Driving to Alameda to get a Christmas tree, KALX was playing a whole set dedicated to Micky D's McRib - I hereby dub the Christmas the "McRib Christmas" and I'm going to make a McRib ornament for the tree!
I only wish they had succeeded in abolishing it at the time, as far too many Americans have this anachronistic belief that was true back then must be true today. The Electoral College is a travesty and is unique in the world in being ridiculous.
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"How Gilmore Girls characters would respond to the pandemic" (a thread)
Lorelai - makes her own masks from old concert T-shirts, has re-watched every movie made before 1950, uses Covid as an excuse to get out of Friday Night Dinners, but then has to Zoom into them
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