Appetizer

I'm mulling over a post right now, but in the meantime, I'll be lazy and crib other people's links.

From PZ Meyers, a link to a bunch of Photoshop chimaeras.  Reminds me of those weird books about forward evolution (can't remember the name).  There seems to be a collective fondness for beaks and horns. 

Links to a slew of political spectrum tests (c/o TCF) with my results following:

Political Quiz  I scored 7, placing me between Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.

World's Smallest Political Quiz  Again I'm definitely liberal, with scores of 100% and 30%.

The Political Brew:  Political Quiz  I'm a "Strong Liberal" here, with a score of 7 for nonfiscal, 19 for fiscal.

Red or Blue:  Which Are You?  Confounding the lazy conflation of blue/red culture with blue/red politics, flaming liberal me is right dab smack in the middle on the blue-red cultural spectrum, according to this quiz.

Politopia  The "geography" of this quiz is a bit bizarre.  Apparently I am a "Southerner" who is just slightly closer to the mainstream than Jesse Jackson (my star showed up just "north" of his second "e").

Political Quiz in 2D  Weirdly, this quiz decided that I am a libertarian, albeit one who is camped virtually on the liberal/libertarian dividing line.  If they'd included environmental issues alongside the social ones, the real libertarians probably would have recoiled in horror from my answers.

The venerable Political Compass.  My score's more or less stabilized in the vicinity of the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela, being -4.5 and -5.38.

Comments

[wolfangel]

Oh, why not: 5, 100/30, 10/20, in the middle (by randomly guessing a lot), Southerner, social liberal, -7.38/-6.46.

6, left, left (forgot the numbers), middle (just because I'm well-informed)Yankee, but barely, authoritarian liberal, down there by the Dalai Lama