San Fransisco Giants

I'd always thought that "too much information" and "baseball" were incompatible ideas, but it turns out that I was tragically wrong.

Reductio ad absurdum Rex

The Democrats' message, in short, is that the Democrats are really lousy at delivering a convincing message. Since nobody finds this message convincing, it has a certain surface plausibility.

- James Taranto, Best of the Web Today

Economics

Thomas (age: 8): Mommy, when Santa brings us presents, does anyone have to pay?

Mommy: Yes, dear.

Thomas: How does that work?

Daddy: He sends us a bill.

Thomas: So did you send Santa his money?

Mommy: No, not yet.

Thomas: Well, that can't go on forever.

Chicago

Emma (age four): Uncle Jeff, have you ever been to Chicago?

Jeff: Yes, I have.

Emma: Did you go to the American Girl store?

Jeff: No, I've never been there.

Emma: You went to Chicago but you didn't go to the American Girl store?

Jeff: Nope.

Emma: What stores did you go to?

Jeff: I don't think I've ever been to a store in Chicago.

Emma: You went to Chicago but didn't go to any stores?

Jeff: That's right.

Emma: I think that must have been a different town.

One for you, and one for me

A headline in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal reads Democrats Look to Cultivate Pot Vote in 2012.

That seems fair to me. The Democrats can concentrate on the pot vote, the Republicans concentrate on the human vote, and at the end of the day everyone's happy.

Speak up

Paul Caron notes that the IRS only answered 8% of 352,758 calls it got from deaf taxpayers last year.

Glenn Reynolds makes the predictable and scary corollary point: don't worry, government healthcare will be fine.

To be thought a fool

Prof. Eugene Volokh describes why I don't blog very much.