I had shoulder surgery on July 16, that's why I have hardly been blogging. My job requires a lot of

I had shoulder surgery on July 16, that's why I have hardly been blogging. My job requires a lot of writing and it was all I could really manage there for a few months. It's getting easier, but I was also out of anything like a habit that I'd ever been in.

Anyway, this is one of the best things I have read in a long time: Too much dark money in almonds. Its an alternative take on money in politics. Long story short, Scott Alexander points out that, for all the talk of money in politics, Americans spend more collectively on almonds every year than they do on politics (that's lobbying and election donations combined). Pretty wild when you think about it, right?