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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Fun With Precision

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 2 2007, 4:55 PM ET Comment

Wikipedia on the demographics of Brooklin:

As of the census of 2000, there were 841 people, 371 households, and 244 families residing in the town. The population density was 18.1/km² (46.8/mi²). There were 697 housing units at an average density of 15.0/km² (38.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.45% White, 0.12% African American, 0.12% Native American, 0.59% Asian, 0.36% from other races, and 0.36% from two or more races.


A little multiplication reveals that 0.12 percent of 841 is approximately 1.0092, so I'm going to assume that the town has one black resident who comprises .118906 percent of the total population.

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