The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

My first love, as a kid, was baseball. No, strike that, that’s not quite right. My first love, as a kid, was the Los Angeles Dodgers. I grew up in what was to be the last generation of sports teams that were controlled entirely by owners, before the player-rich days of free agency. So the [...]

(Photo: The exact moment when Rick Perry’s Presidential ambitions died.) Some quick observations about tonight’s debate: Observation #1 – Anti-Government Rhetoric Is Apparently Just That – Rhetoric If there was one universal constant – universal among both all candidates and all issues – was that government only creates problems; if everything were simply left to [...]

E.D. thinks that, contrary to what many fear, a President Romney would not be a puppet on so many Tea Party Congressman’s strings: Why would Romney, unlike virtually every other president in recent history, govern for the base rather than the center? Obama moved to the center when he took office. Aside from his foreign [...]

Blunt Object points to, and Tod and Jason comment on, Alex Tabarrok’s post with regard to new college graduates choosing fluffy liberal arts majors rather than tough STEM majors. The problem is that his graphs are grossly misleading. Whether he was choosing the majors he did to illustrate a point or he was cherry-picking data [...]

While it’s long been conventional wisdom on the Left that the Republican Party is doing whatever it can to ensure the economy stays horrid just long enough for the President to lose his reelection bid, there’s mounting evidence that the rest of the country — Republicans excluded — has reached the same conclusion: [N]ew data [...]

I thought we needed an open thread. But I wanted it to be *FUNKY*. If you have something dope, this is where to drop it.

In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had a right to privacy. I smelled a rhetorical trap coming because the answer seemed so obvious — and, quite frankly, the exchange happened after I’d been dealing with a cagey lawyer on the other side of a case [...]

Years ago, I worked for a Fortune 50 company. Though the company was best known for its postage meter machines, I worked for their photocopier division. They hired me at an entry level outside sales position, and flew me to Seattle for a three day “How To Sell Copiers” training. (And yes, it was exactly [...]

I thought we’d take Patrick’s post below and give it a much more straightforward twist. Feel free to explain your vote in the comments, but you have to vote! The poll will run for one week, though I imagine most of the voting will be done today. (P.S. I voted “Yes.”) (edited by Pat) So [...]

It takes four Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to bring a case onto the docket. Typically when fewer than four indicate they want to review a case, the case dies a quiet death and no one pays attention. It’s very unusual for a denial of Supreme Court review to garner national attention, and it’s [...]