Favorite music from 2022
I try to keep up with current music, to the point I rarely take time to listen to the classics, or even something from five or six years...
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pshinnok
- Jan 30
- 9 min
It's Time to Break Up the College Football Monopoly
I’ve had real philosophical and moral issues with college football for quite some time. I stopped attending games a decade or so ago and...
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pshinnok
- Jan 9
- 4 min
New year's resolutions for political perspective
We're increasingly encouraged to let our politics define and take over our lives. But isn't it healthier to let our lives define and put...
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pshinnok
- Dec 30, 2022
- 1 min
BAPB* No. 13: Debt ceiling, college football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Looking behind to look ahead This week I read a history lesson for Republicans from a very conservative...
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pshinnok
- Dec 27, 2022
- 4 min
The best politics news of 2022
I’m as bad as anyone (and worse than a lot!) in finding the negative in the world of politics. Last year left me no shortage of...
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pshinnok
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
BAPB* No. 12: Interesting climate news, bad football predictions, the bowl edition!
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Interesting Climate Reads/Watches This Brookings podcast is one of the best overviews of where we've been...
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pshinnok
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
BAPB* No. 11: Not as bad as you think, missing persons, and football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain We don't know what those we disagree with are thinking, but it's not as bad as we'd guess. I'm still...
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pshinnok
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB* No. 10: Disappointment, coming attractions, and football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated December 8, 2022 for dismal football prediction results Democrats' decisions to force a labor...
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pshinnok
- Nov 23, 2022
- 7 min
BAPB* No. 9: What can happen after this election? What about the Civil War game?
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated Dec. 3, 2022 for football results What can we expect from the national government in the next two...
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pshinnok
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
BAPB* No. 8: More elections thoughts, more football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated 11/22/22 with football results Further thoughts on midterm elections Last week I shared some first...
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pshinnok
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB No. 7: Quick election takes, football picks
Updated Nov. 17, 2022 for sad football prediction results Pre-final and pre-research election opinions Some of the people have spoken:...
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pshinnok
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
BAPB No. 6: Elections, universal basic income, college football predictions
Updated Nov. 10, 2022 to reveal my continuing failure to accurately predict meaningless things like college football and elections. I...
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pshinnok
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
BAPB No. 5: Climate, Taylor, Football
*Bouncing Around Paul's Brain Updated to make those questioning Paul's prognostical abilities have even more questions (football picks...
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pshinnok
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
BAPB* No. 4: Betting on batteries, a class project, and more football picks.
Betting the farm on batteries Right now our country and maybe the entire world are in electric car mania. And anytime there’s mania,...
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pshinnok
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
Would you like to stop worrying about gas prices?
Gas prices are back in the news and things don’t look good, just when they were getting back to normal. In a few days or weeks we’ll...
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pshinnok
- Oct 14, 2022
- 4 min
BAPB No. 3: January 6 committee and less serious matters
Note: This version is edited Oct. 21, 2022 to show where I got football games right. Keep looking, you''ll find one. For here and now,...
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pshinnok
- Oct 12, 2022
- 7 min
Stupid predictions N0.2: The Senate flips back to Republican
I love to use math and history to predict the future, no matter how foolhardy. Earlier I predicted a Republican takeover of the US House...
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pshinnok
- Sep 19, 2022
- 6 min
Better bets than batteries: Now we can invest in our future without corporate handouts
Just about everyone wants the same things for the place they call home: health, safety, economic opportunity, and connections to people...
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pshinnok
- Aug 30, 2022
- 6 min
The end of Roe, part 2: the path to a civil war?
Earlier I wrote about how abortion policy after the Supreme Court cancelled the constitutional right to abortion has some parallels to...
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pshinnok
- Aug 2, 2022
- 6 min
Stupid predictions No. 1: Democrats look to lose about 60 House seats this fall
Updated Aug. 25, 2022 to correct previous chart and text that omitted the fact that President Harry Truman lost party control of the...
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