Month: May 2017

I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that Ben Carson is our Secretary of Housing & Urban Development. He said he wasn’t qualified for the job but the president nominated and the Senate confirmed him...

WAPO (Once again w/no paywall. Gotta disseminate that disinfo, right? Gotta reach out to all the suckers!!!) `I would be your president:’ Clinton blames Russia, FBI chief for 2016 election loss Hillary Clinton emerged from...

“Squaring the circle” is an allusion to a task that seems straightforward but is actually impossible: Drawing a square that has the exact same area as a circle. The explanation has to do with irrational numbers and...

I’ve probably mentioned before that I don’t consume much right-wing news, even for research purposes. The stuff makes me ill and life is too short. Every once in a while, though, someone points me to something...

One of the interesting things to look for as our country’s politics enter a new phase of more rapid realignment is cases where this messes with the assumptions that were made when our congressional districts were...