Fun political points

Perhaps all these links and blurbs belong on Snarkmarket, but I'm putting them up because they make me smile.

• Atrios: "People who do well in the market like to believe they're "smart investors." Maybe they are. But, most of them just got lucky. Being a "smart investor" means that you know more than the market does, something which can't exist if we believe the markets are efficient, as our conservative trolls usually do."
• Talking Points Memo: "Yes, the president got more popular votes than any other candidate in history. He is followed by John Kerry.... The fact that the president got more popular votes than anybody in the past isn't a measure of the margin of his victory. It's a measure of population growth, which (unless he's more of a bounder than we know) he is not responsible for, and a high-turnout election, for which his unpopularity is as responsible as his popularity."
• Pandagon: "Informed of [a report ranking the healthiness of all 50 states], Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana derided the top three as "condescending granola-crunchers" out of touch with heartland values like "saturated fat and sittin' around". They further noted that frequent doctor visits were for "cowards" with "affordable health insurance"."