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Plus ça ne change point….

John
5th Nov 2016
Politics
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More polls, no change, so the decline of the last week appears to have flattened out, though I won’t call it a trough unless it starts to climb again.

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In Honor Of Cubs, Chicago Dyes River The Color Of….Water. Will Not Be Water-Colored Again For 108 Years.

John
4th Nov 2016
Baseball
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What the hell color was it before? No, you do the math.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-chicago-river-dyed-blue-for-cubs-celebration-20161104-story.html

John
2nd Nov 2016
Baseball
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John
25th Oct 2016
Stocks
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oopsie

John
21st Oct 2016
Music
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Well, yes, since you ask, it is Trafalgar Day, and how better to celebrate it than with one of Maurice Gibb’s greatest moments? The pièce de résistance of the group’s “Sad Beatles” Era, the best John Lennon song John Lennon never wrote, and one of my fave rave Bee

John
5th Nov 2016
Politics
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So Sam Wang has a theory about why 538 is so much more indecisive than people who know how to use math. He thinks that in addition to using means instead of medians (which in itself adds volatility due to the effect of single outlying results), they may be double-counting

John
4th Nov 2016
Politics
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OK, OK, so the polls have tightened, but the polls always tighten in the last couple weeks. I’d thought that Comeymania would filter through for a few days, if at all, and then things would stabilize. If they’re going to stabilize, it’s today and tomorrow that it will happen. On

John
31st Oct 2016
Politics
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While the polls are unlikely to show much movement from last Friday’s Comeymania™ (no, srsly, they’re not–polls do always tighten somewhat in the last weeks of a campaign, but that’s it), Sec. Clinton has gone on the offensive in a way that many people felt she should have done some

John
24th Oct 2016
Stocks
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So you end up following things you don’t entirely expect, and one of those, at the beginning of this year, was the biggest bank in Puerto Rico, Popular Inc. (BPOP). Having had some exposure to the overall situation in the commonwealth by my positions in some bond insurers, which are

John
19th Oct 2016
Baseball
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Plus ça ne change point….

In Honor Of Cubs, Chicago Dyes River The Color Of….Water. Will Not Be Water-Colored Again For 108 Years.

The Most Accurate News Source In The Known Universe. For A Minute. Late Last Night. Was Wikipedia. No, Srsly.

What happens when the drug you spend years and millions developing doesn’t work? Suboptimal stuff, that’s what.

Happy Trafalgar Day!

Not Quite A Polling Update, But Close. Because Nothing’s Changed, That’s Why.

Into–Deo Gratias–The Homestretch…

Clinton Goes Nuclear

Popular, Inc. (BPOP-$38.47) No stress, I PROMESA you!

I didn’t watch. There was baseball.