Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Read Stuff, You Should

Happy Birthday to Marco Scutaro, 37. Sometimes, things just happen. Lifetime OPS+ 94; OPS+ over 243 PAs with the Giants, 145.Yes, the downside of Brian Sabean is that Scutaro will now get an Aubrey Huff deal, but it's mostly just money; it's not as if he's blocking anyone. And it was sure great while it lasted.

The good stuff:

1. XKCD takes on Congressional history as seen through DW-NOMINATE. Not real thrilled about reference to "party systems," but hard to complain too much.

2. Thad Hall on potential electoral -- democratic -- disaster. See also Paul Gronke.

3. Doug Mataconis on the Electoral College.

4. And thinking about the economic effects of Sandy, by Suzy Khimm.


2 comments:

  1. While you are linking so many comments about the electoral college, I was wondering if you would give your thoughts on Garrett Jones's piece:

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/why_i_love_the.html

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  2. Can you expand on why you're not thrilled about the XKCD reference to party systems? Do you think it's a bad name for a real phenomenon, or are you challenging the idea that there are meaningful differences between those periods, whatever you call them?

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