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State Legislatures: the frat houses of democracy
While most of us focus of tomorrow’s midterm election and the control of the U.S. Senate, John Oliver is looking at the places where most laws are really made these days. And it’s not in gridlocked Washington — it’s in the state legislatures. I’m really glad Oliver has raised this issue as well as the […]
Supreme Court reenactments with dogs: so wrong but so right!
John Oliver is doing great — and hilarious — journalistic work. In this segment, he not only takes on the serious issue of why the Supreme Court doesn’t allow video cameras during oral arguments (Scalia’s argument against cameras is just lame excuse given the way C-SPAN currently covers Congress), but gives other news outlets the […]
The Cutest Little Spy Plane
Government documents can contain the oddest things! The CIA declassified its U2 flight handbook in 2012. Graphic designer Jack Curry noticed something "delightful" about the manual: "little cartoons of an anthropomorphized U2 at the beginning of each section" and posted copies of them on his personal blog.
- The Cutest Little Spy Plane by Jack Curry. (October 3, 2013)
- Utility Flight Handbook "Secret U2 Flight Handbook" (PDF, 295pp) (March 1, 1959).
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