@natesilver.skystack.xyz I think your latest missive on Vegas is missing the forest (the massive rise of online/mobile gambling) for the trees (lower income gamers getting squeezed on The Strip). How does March Madness weekend stack up? There’s your “tell”.

Is Sleepy Donald the New ‘Sleepy Joe’? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...

#drowsydon strikes again!
@frankabruni.bsky.social gets it. We deserve leadership that is wide awake to the challenges of today’s United States.

#drowsydon at it again! Chasing Biden. Or are we in the Andropov / Chernenko phase of our gerontocracy?

Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

I found an AI that’s writing pretty good one-liners.
Unfortunately they’re all in assembler.

I met John Beam a dozen years ago & worked with him to host SF Flamethrowers games at Laney.
A gentleman through & through. A sad day for Oakland.
#JohnBeam #LaneyCollege

I am trying to decide if I love my country or hate venal corrupt governance more.
Fortunately, they are aligned!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

A nation born in Liberty
Will never bow to Tyranny

“Buttoned up” and “Buttoned down” are practically synonyms.

Do we need other buttoning descriptors?

We have arrived at the place where those on the bottom are struggling to survive with dignity, while those on the top have so much excess savings that the equity risk premium is negative.

“Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance […] of the Rule of Law.”
—F.A.Hayek