Like everyone else in blogland, I set aside a few minutes each day to sacrifice a goat to Google. But despite the enormous bloodletting conducted in their names, I often find them reasonably useless when I’m looking for very targeted information sets. Maybe I’m just not good at searching, but googling has served me better when trying to confirm information or find related data than when I’ve got an objective in mind. Sucks, I know, but what else is there?

Well floor me with a feather, I discovered the wonder that is The Almanac. I had no idea so much blazingly useful information could be found in a single, physical, source. Expect more actual “facts” and”research” undergirding my usual from-the-hip-bullshit from here on out.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.