Ideapad

Tyler Cowen: "Both voting and not voting are motivated by the thought that you are better than other people. I am glad that we have an entire day devoted to this very important concept." Clever bit of absurdist reductionism. And the cringe-inducing comment thread proves his point.

I think, sadly, that Krugman is right. And I think it might give momentum to my cry for a new political party--social liberal, fiscal conservative. Call it the European party....

I had to read this twice in the voting booth to understand it. Then I still didn't get it, decided I wasn't against veterans' benefits, and voted for it. Last line of this explanatory web page: "Con: The League can identify no arguments against this proposal." whew

Reading this, you can hear Nate's inner baseball fan enjoying the parallels of the moment