Joe Biden makes 90 seconds seem like an eternity

I like him for VP.  Seriously.  But my man just keeps talking, and talking.  It’s evident twice in this video, whose star nonetheless is young Damon Weaver.  From the four-minute mark peep Biden’s long-windedness while Damon is straining to hold the microphone above his head.  Little man is going to need a serious shoulder massage.

The Ron Clark Academy shows well

Never heard of it before a few minutes ago.  But the publicity machine is going full-tilt.

Cool cats

White girls named Ashley

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight with a gem.

This is too true

A strong entry on the global sham economy from Kai Chang.  No surprise, Zuky is a serious site.

NFL round-up, Week 8

I’ve become a casual viewer in my old age but this might be fun:
Giants 21, Steelers 14:  Game of the day, lived up to the hype though neither team looked unbeatable.  Lots of hitting.  If the Steelers stay banged up, they could struggle the rest of the way.  And if they don’t protect Ben Roethlisberger [...]

Brandon McClelland and hate crime

 

Takes five weeks or so for the national news media to pick up the story of a man whose body was discovered torn apart by the side of a road.   The man was Brandon McClelland, 24, of Paris, Texas. 
That’s the same Paris where Shaquanda Cotton received a seven-year sentence for pushing a hall monitor in high [...]

Where real Americans live

This is the first mainstream story I’ve seen about Barack Obama as a true product of the big city, a rarity among Presidential contenders, as I noted a while back.
The United States long ago became an urban-suburban nation, with two-thirds of the population now residing in its 100 largest metropolitan areas. Yet recent presidents have [...]

We love statistics

Context is missing too often from straightforward stories.
Like here, where it’s pointed out that Barack Obama’s fund-raising in the first half of October showed a significant decline from the pace in September, when he set a record by pulling in $150 million.
So now he’s on pace for about $70 million in the month.  Which would [...]

Let’s quantify blackness

No, not really.  Ta-Nehisi Coates, unsurprisingly, with a great shutdown of a ridiculous conversation.