The suggestion isn’t a surprise — but the person who made it, is: "Steve Bannon, the one-time adviser to Donald Trump, suggested on Saturday that the former president was paid off after a shift … (View Post)

StillWaters asked: "How does a ship get to Belarus?" Good point. The reporter should have said the fertilizer was headed for Belarus, not the ship. (My guess is that the fertilizer would be… (View Post)

On topic, indirectly: Too bad about the loss of the Rubymar: "A British cargo ship sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants, taking some 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer down with… (View Post)

The earlier discusion about murders of MPS surprised me, since murders of US congressmen are quite rare-- just 4 in the last hundred years in what is undoubtedly a more violent nation:… (View Post)

On homelessness in the US: Some months ago, in a WaPo column, Megan McArdle described a study that found that increasing homeless in US cities was positively correlated with increases in the minimum … (View Post)