@howardbeck.bsky.social Hi, Howard! I was thinking abt how to fix NBA tanking & came up with: 1. All teams that don’t make playoff 2nd rd enter lottery. 2. Teams earn lottery balls based on record. 3. U can save balls for future years. 4. A minimum & max u must "spend" each yr. What do you think?

His. Handlers. Are. Trolling. Us.

A couple years ago I posted at X the below thread about important, horrifying insights about today’s world that we can draw from the 1992 Presidents and Assemblies by Shugart (@laderafrutal.bsky.social) and Carey (@johncarey.bsky.social). As concerned as I was at the time, the threat is 1/

Thank YOU for being one of the very, very few two-time guests! 🙏

Oh, no! Such a great pod. I will miss it.

Very excited! My book Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People—And Olympic Gold tiny.cc/FTSSS was just listed as one of this year's notable books by a University of California author.

This election is so painfully mundane in poli sci terms: -An incumbent party being defeated in the face of public economic discontent -An authoritarian capitalizing on discontent to return to office, paying less of a price than we might hope at the ballot box because the public has other priorities

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