Non-political links:

Yeah, I love archeology.

Really? What kind of busy body are you?

I love it when facts trump common wisdom. Freakonomics dismantles the idea that steroid testing is why run-scoring is down. One of the things I didn’t like about Ken Burns’ Tenth Inning was that it accepted as gospel the idea that steroids produced the recent offensive explosion.

“Safety” does not make us safe.

Political Links:

I’ve made it pretty clear that I don’t like Dick Blumenthal. Watch here as Linda McMahon — of the WWE — cleans his clock on how jobs are created. She says it better in ten seconds than he does in almost two minutes of burbling.

Seems like Lou Dobbs is every kind of hypocrite.

You’re Full of It Watch: the anti-Prop 19ers.

So what do you do when your Keynesian economic plan has failed? Blame foreigners.

Ah, redevelopment. What a scam.

You know, I remember when “binge drinking” actually meant binge drinking, not just drinking.