Intentionally Vicarious: Having more fun than anyone else you know!

Of the 56 cities in the U.S. with more than 250,000 residents, only 11 are conservative compared to 45 that are liberal. Why is that???

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Without 2 Senators per state and the Electoral College, the U. S. Constitution would NEVER have been ratified. NEVER! And the dream of a United States would have fallen apart before it ever really got started.

Change Senate representation to something based on population and/or abolish the Electoral College today, and discussion of the catastrophic impact would EXPLODE.

Worry about something you can do something about!

I don't often get to take advantage of the opportunity for a double-header bashing of our politicians and their foolish shenanigans. This government shutdown and silly border debate just teed one up for me!

“More than 90 percent of the medicine being practiced today did not exist in 1950.”

John Steele Gordon in A Short History of American Medical Insurance

“Follow the money” is clearly the best strategy for understanding what REALLY motivates somebody. But that’s not always easy or even possible. Given that I figured I’d share a few more thoughts on how I keep my BS Detector tuned up.

Comparing sausage-making with the process of negotiating legislation in Congress has been around for long time.  Do you really want to know what parts of the pig go into your hot dog?

Our political discourse has become an enormous insult to our collective intelligence. What can we do about it?

Next time some knucklehead from the other side of the political divide says something that sets me off, I’m going to try to recognize that they’re probably not a knucklehead...