Lynx

• What makes Colorado the swingiest of the swing states?
• Yes, congressional language is getting more simplistic, but I found it particularly interesting that linguistic sophistication correlates (negatively) with ideological extremism among Republicans but not at all among Democrats.
• Bernstein and Chait describes some recent conservative revisionist history on Republicans and civil rights.
• The Obama campaign's use of empiricism. 
• Does the metaphor beginning this Friedman column make any sense at all?
• Cory Booker and Chris Christie vie for attention.
• How to translate candidate Gallup ratings into sex toys.
• "We love the apocalypse as long as nobody acknowledges the truth: It's not a mythical event. We live on top of one."