Scrambled Headlines? Maybe Not . . . Today’s headlines are scary enough if you don’t have dyslexia. Unfortunately, if you do (my case is very mild), it can make things exponentially worse. Take, for example, the headline in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Alabama Hears Final Pitch” My brain converted that into these variations: “Alabama Fears Final Hitch”...Read More
Porous, Virtual Political Borders + Tsunami of Outside Money People who decry the outsized influence wielded by sparsely-populated states in the electoral college (think, North & South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Rhode Island) are missing a key point: thanks to porous borders — and lax campaign finance laws — many of the elections in those states are...Read More
