Outside the Beltway

The serial sex offender will be released from prison.

There have only been eleven since 1981.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

When the teaser is better than the news.

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

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College athletes are now free to cash in on their fame.

A lot of Americans think so.

New York Times columnists are not a representative sample.

The downside of the “good guy with a gun” trope.

There’s got to be a better way.

A tragic story gets more complicated.

When he said he wouldn’t sign it if it wasn’t accompanied by a second bill, he wasn’t implying that he would veto it if it wasn’t.

Stupid is as stupid does.

A bizarre development looks to upend it less than 24 hours after it was announced.

Stories, links, and brief observations from the week that never grew into posts.

Public health shouldn’t be made into a partisan issue.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

“A Walk in the Woods”

Details are quite scant at the moment.

The pop star is “traumatized” by restrictions placed by her conservator-father.

Ron DeSantis and friends are afraid of higher education.

The second won’t be so fortunate.

Another narrowly-crafted but overwhelming opinion from the Supreme Court.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

Most NCAA restrictions violate anti-trust law.

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Yet more evidence that we’re a nation divided.

A law seeking to help the state’s workers seems to be having the opposite effect.

Some semi-coherent thoughts on the occasion.

Discussing the filibuster.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

Vaccination is voluntary but refusal is not without consequence.

Or, you know, not.

Quick takes from the week.