Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>]

scripsit Tom:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:32:15PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> 
> > a system (I did the math a while ago) we'd have a small but nonzero
> > number of (at least) Greens and Libertarians in the House, even with
> 
> There is 1 independent Senator and 1 independent Congressman (what's the 
> generic term for member of House?  Representative?), so it's already 
> "nonzero".

The senator was elected as a Republican, though, and bolted, IIRC. 

I was aware of the indepentents; `nonzero' referred to members of
organized `third' parties, which could run party lists under a
Scottish-style system.  AFAIK there are no party members in the Congress
that are not Democrats or Republicans.

> I want to be a Whig.

Anarcho-syndicalist, myself... 

Well, maybe not really, but it sounds cooler than whig.

¡No pasarán!

We should really take this off-list, BTW...

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Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.