I didn't know you had friends who read Slate.

i read slate. ok. really i read big money. slate i randomly get sent to when i click an article on big money.

Steve Sailer would love this article -- a classic illustration that a big driver for liberal politics in America is a struggle for status among whites. A bit like the famous IQ charts purporting to show that Gore/Kerry voters were smarter than Bush voters. Of course average IQs in the deep south really are lower than in the Northeast, but it is the Democratic voters in those states that account for the bulk of the difference.

Corzine really is remarkable -- bearded politicians are rare in America, and mostly found in legislatures. It helps that he is a billionaire.

"Corzine really is remarkable -- bearded politicians are rare in America"

That makes Paterson triply remarkable -- bearded, blind and black!