I have to thread the needle a bit on this one. On the one hand, I have very much evangelized how much sports video games has done to educate lots of people on some of the finer points of professional and college sports, myself included. Even though, at times, I like to poke fun about […]
St. Louis residents began rounding up their live trees for disposal on Thursday, just 24 hours after presents were wrapped underneath them, clearing the way to prepare for spring cleaning in the new year.
Did you know that the Philadelphia Fed tracks something called the Partisan Conflict Index every month? They do. Here's what it looks like over the past couple of decades: The spikes and one valley (for COVID) seem reasonable, but there's an odd upturn in early 2010. It's not a spike, it's a permanent increase. What ...continue reading "The Partisan Conflict Index hit 178 in November"
I've mentioned before that Donald Trump has been remarkably successful at making people fear him. Partly this is because he's focused his attention on things where he has a lot of discretion. I'm not talking about the dumb little stuff like tax on tips, which is never going to happen, but on the big ticket ...continue reading "Trump plans to amass a great deal of personal authority to punish his enemies"