For those of you wondering about the secret of Barack Obama’s success, that mystery has been solved– it’s the font: Steven Heller: As a branding expert, can you tell me what it is about the typographical scheme of Senator Obama’s…
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was released on parole last year after serving eight years for second-degree murder, reportedly will run for Congress in a hotly contested House race. A local paper reported on March 12 that Kevorkian had obtained the…
Tired of feeling like your vote doesn’t count? Move to Prospect Bend, an unincorporated community in Broward County, Florida, near the town of Tamarac. There, every vote counts — or every vote would count, if they could get one. Tamarac…
Let’s take a short break from mourning for the shattered dream of a Romney presidency and remember another casualty of Super Tuesday: the Alcatraz proposal on the San Francisco ballot. Proposition C would have changed city policy towards the island,…
Evidently a strong believer in smaller government, Ed Hamilton says that if elected he will shrink the size of the government in Kerr County, Texas, by at least one job—his own. Hamilton, a 77-year-old Republican, says that the position of…
Stephen Colbert’s run for president ended earlier this month after Democrats in South Carolina refused to put him on the primary ballot. Now, a second disappointment: he will not be allowed to participate in a runoff for a seat on…
Reuters News reports today that so many candidates are running in local elections next month in Bulgaria that the ballots are now too large to fit in any Bulgarian-made envelopes. Due to this humiliating deficiency in the domestic Bulgarian envelope…
Last week, a spokesperson for Barack Obama’s campaign said that a group called "Californians for Obama" had been asked to close up shop despite its success to date in raising over $10,000 in campaign contributions. Among their concerns: the group…
Apparently eager to be as democratic as possible now that they have the chance, Hungarians have repeatedly exercised their new ability to put referendums on the ballot. The only ones that have passed so far were the two in which…
In what seems like an unfair move — how could you not vote for "Andy Griffith" to be your sheriff? — a music store owner in Grant County, Wisconsin, changed his name from "William Fenrick" to "Andy Griffith" upon entering…