⸘John‽ @john@dads.cool

Con: His positions are often a bit too extreme for my tastes, but his approach is the bigger problem. Whether it's his infamous joke about shooting up school board meetings or calling soldiers murderers, I really don't think this is the right kind of attention.

Pro: He really is a party insider and knows how to work with the infrastructure we have to push attention down and aim for ballot access. He'd be a good campaign manager.

Sorinne Ardeleanu

I know very little of Ms. Ardeleanu. I do know she refers to herself as running for "Healer in Chief" and brings up "love" a lot. Someone I respect referred to her as "our Marianne Williamson".

Honestly, I'm open to it. If I get signals that she's running a serious, robust campaign I'll give her a serious consideration. But until then I'm not going to rack my brain over what her nomination would look like.

Today I was listening to episode 16 of My Brother, My Brother and Me, originally released on Aug 2, 2010.

While answering a question about superstitiously avoiding air travel on the eleventh of September, one brother predicts that March 12, 2020 is the day "you really gotta watch out for", because he has "a bad feeling".

Here's hoping, for his sake, no giant terrorist attack happens on that day.

What is the most mispriced debate market on PredictIt right now?

Blake Ashby

He's out-of-place. He's a country-club Republican. And his insurgency is weak. Sure he's got money, but the one powerful tactic can buy you he's not doing. He doesn't know how to work this process, and hasn't gotten buy-in from someone who can guide him (the way MW & LC have).

And he seems to be getting annoyed. I expect him to drop out and knock the dust off his sandals on teh way out.

Erk Gerhardt & Kenneth Blevins

2fer 'cause these guys are an afterthought. They don't have any support and aren't gaining any because they're bad at this, though they both seem friendly enough.

Pro: EG appears to be actually libertarian and DB is kind of pretty.

Con: They're unknown and bad at campaigning.

There is a dance at my daughters' school. They both wanted to go. So we parents, who are celebrating our anniversary, decided to spend time together concurrently. When we got here they told us there's no drop-offs, we must stay with the children. Welp, there goes date night.

Max Abramson

To me, on paper Max looks great. I have a lot in common with him ideologically (though as a matter of degrees I'm more pro-immigration). And he has a voting record in office, both holding office as a Libertarian and running as a Libertarian. And his record is good. He even sponsored legislation to use Approval Voting in his state, which I support strongly.

But he's *such* an asshole to everyone. It's not constructive at all. He even attacked me personally. WTF