Tag Archives: politics

Bad News – Eels Okay, so the threshold for what makes a scandal really seems to be falling. Only one of these things strikes me as a legitimate ‘scandal,’ and even there it’s a pretty minor variant. It’s particularly telling to … Continue reading →

Drugs And Kittens I’ll Drink To That – Mighty Mighty Bosstones Today is National Drug Take-Back Day.  The idea is that you can dispose of your expired or unused prescription drugs in a safe manner. Let’s compare that idea to gun … Continue reading →

So we all know that 90% of people support background checks.  A fact which has caused Maureen Dowd to become a parody of herself (seriously, that column has to represent the exact moment when we hit Peak Dowd, right?).  But … Continue reading →

Last weekend I was at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago. While there I attended a neat roundtable on the 2012 election, featuring blog-stars Nate Silver and Ezra Klein, as well as some political science folks with pretty … Continue reading →