Month: December 2019

A Changing Identity

It is exceedingly dangerous to extrapolate too greatly from limited data points. However, there are times where small doses of surprising information can reveal an ongoing trend well before it becomes generally obvious. This blogger is of the opinion that last Thursday’s British general election revealed such a scenario....

Team of the Decade

On January 1, 2010, if you had told me I would be more interested in the outcome of a Leicester City Football Club match than an University of Illinois basketball game, I would have looked at you like you were absolutely insane. And some questions would have come to...

The Suburban Nightmare, Continued

Following the early November 2019 off-year elections, this blogger posted an article titled “Whistling Past the Graveyard,” which addressed Matt Bevin’s loss in the Kentucky gubernatorial race in the context of Bevin’s clear similarities with President Donald Trump.  The article also referenced the one remaining major race in the...