I never understood why it's so hard to believe that Iranian leaders are rational actors. They might be awful people, but they care about maintaining their power.
John Cole defends the (large majority of) women who have sex for pleasure. More of this please.
As far as wealth and presidents goes, the trend probably looks like a U-shaped curve, with extraordinarily wealthy presidents at the founding, progressively less wealthy presidents through the 19th century, and an uptick again in the 20th century.
Fraser Speirs talks about the problems with Android. I find it hard to disagree.
I spoke about Super Tuesday for a few minutes on the radio this afternoon. Check it out. (I'm at the 5 minute mark.)
There's nothing about this that I don't like:
