{"id":21498,"date":"2014-11-24T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21498"},"modified":"2014-11-24T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:32:15","slug":"term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21498","title":{"rendered":"Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2014\/11\/are-term-limits-good-idea'>Kevin Drum talk term limits<\/a>. He doesn't like em. I like em. But I dislike the hard cutoff of \"two terms and your out!\" I'd prefer something a little sexier.<\/p>\n<p>So how about handicapping incumbents with an ever-increasing headwind:<\/p>\n<p>votes = votes * log(50 - years_in_office) \/ log(50)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/log50.png\" alt=\"log50\" width=\"360\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/log50.png 360w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/log50-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 40 years, you only receive 60% of your raw vote total. Nobody will make it to 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of course you can adjust those 50s to taste.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it will finally achieve what decades of school curricula have failed to do: link civics and algebra. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum talk term limits. He doesn't like em. I like em. But I dislike the hard cutoff of \"two terms and your out!\" I'd prefer something a little sexier. So how about handicapping incumbents with an ever-increasing headwind: votes = votes * log(50 - years_in_office) \/ log(50) After 40 years, you only receive 60% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21503,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21498\/revisions\/21503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}