Month: July 2015

Call Your Dinners Whatever

I guess I come down somewhere in between Ed Kigore and this Hot Air lunatic. I agree with Ed that it doesn’t really matter what we call a stupid fundraising dinner. But I agree with the lunatic that publicly disowning...

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Why Are There So Many Candidates?

Over at Mischiefs of Faction, John Patty has a theory for why there are eleventy billion Republican presidential candidates. There’s a bit of casting about for an answer, but what he ultimately arrives at can be summed up...

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NY Minimum Wage Fight Not Over

I know Laura Clawson wrote an excellent piece about the New York State’s Wage Board’s decision to support raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for fast food workers. I suggest you read it if you haven’t...

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Happens to Big Leaguers, Too

It’s plays like this that made me happy to give up my centerfield position and take over at shortstop. Many Little Leaguers could empathize with [Brett] Gardner, when the Yankees left fielder lost Davis’ flyball in...

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Casual Observation

Until today, I had not considered the potential impact of cyborg uteruses on the Supreme Court’s willingness to maintain a meaningful right to an abortion.

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