As a kid, I could fairly be called an obsessive baseball fan. Among many other useless pieces of information I could have told you Ted Williams' lifetime batting average, home run total, number of batting titles, and other bits of arcana which were much more impressive...
Armando asks a common question with respect to my post from this morning: @taupe_hat @LemieuxLGM Well, could Obama have done anything different on ACA in your view? Should he have?.
Here is a pretty cool map of precinct-level support in three Seattle municipal races from last month: mayoral (Ed Murray v incumbent Mike McGinn), one city council seat (socialist Kshama Sawant.
A tweep asked me to comment on Alex Gourevitch's brief essay on health care politics. Not surprisingly, it's much better on the policy than on the politics. To start with the points of agreement, Gourevitch (and Bob Kuttner, in the piece Gourevitch discusses) are certainly correct...
Michelle Chen provides a useful overview of the intertwined environmental and humanitarian disaster of American policies toward the Mexican border. She covers several important issues. To excerpt from her introduction:.
This thread went past the 400-comment mark, so some of you may have missed the comment where LGM frequenter, Karen, nonchalantly admitted she had read all five parts of John.
Ohio leads the nation in swearing. Ohio is also the 5th least courteous state. Personally, I blame William McKinley.
I guess there's nothing really wrong with granting UNESCO World Heritage status to the German beer purity laws. I mean, whatever, I guess laws holding back the development of more.
Excellent short article by Conrad Crane on the enduring allure of long range strike and the appeal of airpower: There are two approaches to waging war, asymmetric and stupid.Every competent belligerent.
This is a nice change from the usual news of doom for New England fisheries, with scallop production based out of New Bedford exploding and what sounds like very responsible government regulation of the scallop beds that will keep the production going. Note: you usually know...
The New Jersey Pinelands are a really neat ecosystem, the rare fire-driven ecosystem in the east. I enjoyed hiking there when I was in the area in September. Like everything.
Stuff from the inter-tubes... Fantastic long discussion of oral history and the nuclear aspects of the Yom Kippur War. More on this one in a bit. This just makes me.