Month: November 2014

I live in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and like the rest of the northeast/upper mid-Atlantic/midwest, we’re getting blasted by arctic air for the next few days. I no longer own a car, so I use my bike to get to work. I made...

The media are going to discover in short order that nothing ever really changes with the Republicans, unless it is that their behavior grows worse. But there’s one thing in the following that I have to strongly dispute:...

I hadn’t considered the likelihood that a Republican Congress would or will scuttle any effort to make some kind of agreement with Iran regarding their nuclear program, but that was merely an oversight on my part. If the...

Nate Silver’s analysis of poll-herding leads me to trust polls less than ever, yet, I have come to believe that it’s a fool’s errand to bet against the average of polls. This year, the correct bet was to assume...

I obviously don’t have the slightest clue whether or not Bill Cosby is guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting women, although it’s troubling that there are multiple allegations of such behavior spanning several...