The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]

Many of you have probably figured this out by now but I’m over at Keystone Politics most of the time if you want more Geeting material.

For a while being a political junkie kind of crowded out my interest in seeking out new music, but lately I’ve been back on my grind and I don’t see why y’all shouldn’t reap as much consumer surplus from my music aggregating as maybe you do from the political news aggregating. Here’s a Flying Lotus [...]

Trolling one’s own blog is a basic human right, so I’m going to have to interrupt the political blogging with my 10 favorite albums of the year. 2012 was a pretty excellent year for music I like, and it was unusually hard to narrow it down to 10 favorites, so I’ve included an extended list of the top 25. In no particular [...]

The newly-wedded Geeting Unit is headed down to Tulum, Mexico on honeymoon this morning, so no blogging will be happening here until the 31st. I didn’t buy a mobile data package for the trip so I really won’t be reading the Internet at all this time. Please (!) flag any interesting land use and development [...]

If the blogging has seemed a little suckier than usual lately, it may be that the working conditions have been deteriorating steadily as the wedding day approaches