Author: Patrick

For the parents in the League.

NYT reports House GOP members likely to reject the Senate’s overwhelming support (89-10) for the short-term extension of the payroll tax cut and the extension of unemployment benefits.

In Jason’s recent post on Waste and Abuse, Density Duck writes: Ask your husband to explain how SpaceX can build a rocket for half as much as NASA.  Then get back to me on how...

Bob Costa’s rant about end zone celebrations being symptomatic of the disintegration of American society is probably a bit overwrought. This is… just sad.

Crying babies. The Economist weighs in, Megan McArdle responds via Twitter. Three things:

Today’s XKCD puts the infographic magic on Money. Since people are really bad, generally, at wrapping their heads around really big numbers, I recommend.

On “fishing“, with various interesting links to discussions.

MSNBC reports “Pelosi fires back at report on ‘insider trading’”. A television report that questioned whether members of Congress are making investment decisions based on insider information drew a heated response from former House...

On January 23rd, 1941, Ory and Ethel (Lettie) Freeland signed the following: “We the undersigned, being the father and mother of Maurice H. Freeland, a minor, an applicant for enlistment in the United States...

The last few days have seen a number of posts (most of ’em here, one external) on education, employment, STEM vs. Other Fields of Study, and the like, where various members of the League...

Greg asks, “How many people get here from Milf-o-rama.com?” (cheekily) Our referrers for the last week:

Koz has made an assertion that the League is overwhelmingly in favor of PPACA. I found this odd, since it seemed to me that the members who most frequently comment were at best “not...

Todd recently asked where everyone came from and how they wound up being part of the League. My first comment is apparently this one. I admit I didn’t remember precisely when I started reading...

Mike asks: > Absolute power corrupts absolutely – > or is it more complicated than that? It’s more complicated than that. Social organizations of any type represent aggregated power. This is true whether you’re...

Is this a case of someone blowing something out of proportion, or is this an actual thing? Louisiana bans using cash in sales of second-hand goods?

Article Five: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States,...

This is the first post in a series. This took a significant amount of time to write (most of the research had been done previously), so don’t expect these to come with a low...

Members of the League occasionally ask about nuclear power (or muse as to why the U.S. doesn’t seem to have a well thought out energy policy including nuclear power). Go here and “sign” (registration...

Dear Everyone in the First World: Since many of you seem to have a small difficulty with the use of telecommunications devices in spite of their ubiquity, I’m going to offer two pieces of...

On the recent coercion follow-up thread to an earlier thread that was itself a response to two earlier threads (I’m now officially going to make you backtrack on that if you want more context)…62...