Advanced analytics -- they're what you should use if you're interested in winning. But if you want to think that Calgary and Toronto represent better strategies for franchise-building than Chicago, go right ahead. ...junker in comments: My least favorite argument: Commentators who simultaneously argue that...
Month: May 2014
Carnotaurus was a dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago. At first glance, it kinda just looks like another pretty fearsome therapod, in the mold.
A fascinating interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jess Bravin (non-paywalled excerpts here.) First, of particular interest to me, is that she seems to confirm that the Court ducking the.
A huge step forward in the minimum wage struggle was taken yesterday in Seattle, where a commission of labor and business members came to a general agreement on a $15 minimum wage for the city, making it the nation's wage leader. This isn't a total...
A very useful primer on this horrible story.
It's been awhile since LGM had a cat mascot. So allow me to nominate my cat Torvald, who turned 11 today (or yesterday if you are on the east coast)..
On Tuesday, I participated in the Fletcher School's "Bridging the Gap" idea fest. Organized by Dan Drezner, the concept involved drawing scholars from a wide range of experiences into a conversation about the size, relevance, and tractability of the divide between policy practitioners and the...
It's Spring Cleaning at the Washington Post Outlook, the time of year when the WaPo commissions ideas about stuff that we should get rid of in 2014. You can Moisturizing.
There may be many reasons not to eat meat, but there are no good reasons not to eat wild boars which are an invasive species tearing up southern and midwestern.
I'll have a longer quasi-defense of the Sharks up later this eve., but since the games start tonight as an homage to them I'll see if I can get under .500 after a 7-1 start picking the playoffs. So, applying the same logic as the...
So it's probably good that it's not actually happening.
Libertarians are very special people. Racist rants by federal lands moocher Cliven Bundy and vile comments attributed to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling have put old-school racism back in.