A plain blog about politics

Happy Birthday to Terry Hall of The Specials and The Fun Boy Three, 53. I'm not sure how I didn't know this (or maybe I just forgot...

Ah, I think I'll do a names question today -- those are always popular. Should Barack Obama be re-elected, it seems likely that he...

Will Ron Paul's libertarian campaigns have any long-term effect on the Republican Party? If so, on what policy positions?

Will the massacre by an American in Afghanistan have long-term consequences? I sort of doubt it...it might accelerate what was already going...

Yeah, we've got a new playoff system. No, I'm not particularly happy about it. I continue to believe that the real problem here is B...

At Greg's place today, I talked epistemic closure and running against fantasy Obamas. Two things to add: one is that anyone in the GOP ...

The answer, of course, is that Congress is unpopular. However, just because everyone hates Congress, that doesn't mean that Congress is ...