OK, now that I've bad-mouthed them, here I go:

Economic Left/Right: 4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.62

So, yeah: I'm totally a right-wing SoCon, but I differentiate strongly between morality and ethics, and thus veer libertarian on federal Constitutional issues.
E.g.: life begins at conception, but if you pagans in Washington want to build altars to Moloch and sacrifice your offspring, then God have mercy on you. And, in the same fit of folly, declare sex with a mare 'love' and marry your horse. I'm not coming to Washington on vacation, that's for sure.
As for Economics, if you haven't read The Road to Serfdom, you probably think this sunshine Obama has been blowing up your nethers is somehow valid.

For one example of a loaded question from TPC:

Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.

Evil. Corporations. Are. Evil.
Right. I hail from Western Oregon, which has been thoroughly denuded and rendered a blighted wasteland by Weyerhauser.
NOT! Corporations tend to grasp their symbiotic relationship with the market.
They can tend toward monopoly, and there is a reasonable regulatory role for government.
Just keep in mind that government, itself, is the ultimate monopoly.

It's about getting Tuesday started the right way, folks: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3171705&cid=41594577

You fear what the Burma Shave troll can do: http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3126179&cid=41373651

You fear: http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3126179&cid=41373651

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3107623&cid=41298081
For five lines, we mix shaving, the Chicago teachers strike, and the most obscure musical reference you'll read all day. And that, friends, is a good troll.

But second post will do: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3062809&cid=41068147

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/0335220/house-representatives-working-on-nasa-reform-bill
Happy Troll Tuesday to all.

Reacting to: http://slashdot.org/~squiggleslash/journal/285991 which isn't taking comments.
I'm not totally deep on the school, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and read The Road to Serfdom.
Overall, the point that centralization sucks is a good one. Vast amounts of power in the hands of an unaccountable few can only be a Good Thing for 'God' values of 'few'.
Which is why I contend that we should redistribute power, not wealth. Empowering people, with the minimal level of necessary government oversight, will enrich all. Who want to be enriched.
Never forget that the evil of the human soul is a constant, and there will always be those claiming 'unfairness', occasionally with legitimacy, but quite frequently in a passive-aggressive mode. And government will deliver that 'fairness', oh yes: next Tuesday.

I make it a rule not to be too judgmental about software tools.
PHP is the exception.
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

A few thoughts on PPACA and a hilarious Onion scan here.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/07/when-william-f-buckley-succumbed-to-marxism/

Making all of the files available via, say, $PYTHONPATH is tedious.
I wanted to say start from he point of script invocation, go up one directory (to project root), and just look!
This is really ugly, but may work on OSX:

for f in `find .. -type d -regex '../[^.]*'`; do echo `pwd`/$f; done;

We'll soon see.

Salve is the publishing event of 20 June 2012!
Check it out for Kindle, and also dead tree format.
Get a copy, so that when I'm famous you can say "Yeah, I knew Smitty when he was just journaling on Slashdot."