OK, I confess I am mystified.  An article in The Guardian by Musa al-Gharbi looks at the data now available on voting patterns in the US pr...

Congratulations to Brad Setser for being selected to be the Agency Review Team for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. I’...

 Officially Trump continues to hold a hard line of denying he has lost, with most GOP officeholders continuing to support his denials public...

The Washington Post has a story about the Erie, Pennsylvania postal worker who claimed to not have not recanted his fantasy about overhearin...

 I realize that Joe Biden just held a press conference where he basically dismissed the refusal of Trump and a lot of other Republicans to c...

 The New York Times today has a story about a new study that claims Alexander Hamilton owned slaves right up to the end of his life.  There...

 Really, it was not planned with politics in mind.  In Harrisonburg, VA we are an hour drive from Charlottesville, VA, and we have in the pa...

 Crickets. UPDATE:  George W. Bush : “I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. I extended my warm congratulatio...

 As I write this the outcome of the presidential election remains uncertain, although the trends seem to be heading steadily in Biden's ...

 I am about to turn in and let the vote counting continue without me.  It will be a troubled sleep, since the election was mostly a disaster...

 Several months ago I forecast that "He who wins Prairie du Chien wins the White House."  I also argued more generally that SW Wis...

 My favorite ; A hand-made sign a few blocks away from my house: ONE DAY, LIKE A MIRACLE, HE'LL BE GONE Amen to that!

 I made it through episode 5 of The Queen’s Gambit last night, but I doubt I will finish it.  A noticeable deterioration takes place on all ...

 The election season is nearly over, thank heavens, but I guess I shall throw one more story for it out there, one I really did not expect a...

My friends,  If you post endless copies of off-topic news articles and list of corona virus statistics to my substantive posts, I will simpl...