Charlotte shaken down for $300 million by the Panthers. Admittedly, I'm sure those 8 home dates a year have a massive impact on the area's economy. Who could have anticipated that creating lavishly taxpayer-subsidized expensive parking garages for the Yankees would be a terrible idea? Who...
Like most elite supporters of destroying public eduction unions and handing the future of education over to capitalists and flawed testing systems that make or break people's careers, Michelle Rhee.
The lack of appropriate zoning restrictions did not cause the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX. It did, however, make the consequences of the explosion far more devastating than was.
As you may have heard, a fertilizer plant has exploded in the town of West, Texas. This town, the Czech cultural capital of Texas and home of a mighty fine kolache at the Czech Stop, not to mention outfielder and stolen base maven Scott Podsednik, is...
Robin Williams can be annoying, but this is a wonderful reminiscence of the great Jonathan Winters.
I apologize for not posting this sooner, but unfortunately my voice deserted me Monday and Tuesday and, as I make clear in the podcast itself, I'm an asshole. We discuss,.
I wrote the following entry a few months ago, but I'm doing an encore presentation of it here because I think it serves as a nice addendum to Scott's post from earlier today. Kevin Williamson, Internet-famous for writing a couple of screeds about about women being...
Dear People Who Hold My Future in Your Hands, When you distanced yourself from this lowly history professor last fall for daring to use a violent metaphor against moral monster.
Even the highly popular, watered-down background check bill was killed by a Senate minority. I blame Obama's failure to use the bully pulpit.
And while I'm the subject of poor governance in WA, it occurs to me I haven't complained here about our new governor's terrible beer tax idea. I'm not an anti-tax person, and I'm not even that anti-Pigovian tax; I recognize that such taxes can have benefits...
Couple of points of interest: 1. I had a deeply frustrating twitter conversation with Ed McClelland yesterday. Favorite part: @drfarls Professor, you spend a lot of time trying to prove.
This post addresses a strange and frustrating dynamic in WA state politics: the state legislature, in addition to providing zero dollars annually for public transit subsidies for King County Metro,.