...was offered in Fall '07 in a letter to your column:

Solution for the wild-card?

How about a one-game playoff for the top two wildcard finishers in each league? From competing divisions, so that no third-place finisher would have a berth.

Result: truly intense division races, since second place would deliver, at best, only half a shot at mainline postseason play. One more team in the wildcard race. And a rested division winner facing a wildcard team staggering in after travel and pitching depletion.

But also the necessary fourth postseason team, an incredible day of baseball, and an outside chance at a Cinderella story.

-- EconCCX

http://letters.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/09/25/tuesday/permalink/6e3f909f2e10d743225b2d9d156cb07c.html

Unless the SFGate reader is proposing four wildcards per league, (his word choice is confusing), I hope you'll consider a column update, for the record.

And she's got a nice butt.

And now a nice Foggy Bottom.

The fuel economy standard for passenger cars is 27.5 miles per gallon...But...the purpose of an automobile is to move a passenger...If we assume the average passenger weighs 190 pounds...or almost 0.1 tons, then we could say that a car actually moves 1 ton by 275 miles per gallon.

Pablo, aren't you multiplying by ten when you should be dividing? Single-passenger payload is 0.1 ton, and a gallon moved it 27.5 miles. That's 2.75 ton-miles per gallon, not 275.

I checked out some of your previous letters; you are definitely one "knows it" and "gets it" gal or guy. Are you blogging, or is there any way to read more of your work other than googling this one handle?

On Saturday, Paul Krugman noted that Friedman's greatest contribution to the economic corpus, "A Monetary History of the United States," co-written with his wife, Anna Schwartz, argued that the Great Depression could have been averted if the Federal Reserve had moved more quickly to expand "the monetary base,

She wasn't. Somebody's confusing NBER economist Anna Schwartz with Rose Friedman, with whom Milton wrote "Free to Choose."

Took forever to get Pablo's math corrected, and now these Friedman nuptials, noted in that entry's second letter. So I'll say it again and perhaps get the attention of an editor:

Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz collaborated on a book together. They were not husband and wife. The HTTW post "Dow plunges again, Friedman fans despair" should really be corrected.

This is the day Britney returned to network TV to flog her new album on GMA. Some understanding, please, about the nature of self-promotion and publicity. About a woman's agency (in both senses). Binging and purging is as unsafe and unhealthy as Britney's earlier pathologies. It's entirely up to her to be in the public eye and take the scrutiny along with the dollars, as she makes her recovery the story.

But since she shares two chromosomes with a Broadsheet writer, tribal loyalty will as usual overcome the weight of evidence. Britney's being picked on. Remember how they made fun of Anna Nichole.

Have you ever acknowledged, in your own name, being Salon's false-flag poster Obama08Now ? He or she acknowledged being you.

...if Blago proposed an illegal quid pro quo. Doesn't matter that Rahm turned him down. More likely, Blago took it right to the line: Patricia would be excellent in an administration position. And Rahm told him where she could download the standard 79-page application. And informed the President-Elect, who now has some 'splaining to do, about why his office did not inform the FBI of Blago's ethical lapse.

Obviously, I'm implicated in a crime, and should -- at the very least -- answer tough and unceasing questions about my ethically questionable behavior.

No, as a private citizen you're completely in the clear. If you're a law enforcement officer, you'll indeed be answering questions about your choice to decline, rather than prosecute, a bribery solicitation. It entirely depends on how artful Blago was in making his wishes known.

Obama's doing the right thing...but there *is* a "there" there.

>Transition team gathering facts, cooperating with US attorney's office.

This release doesn't say the Transition team is gathering facts and cooperating with the US attorney. That's last week's news.

What we're told here is that the review is complete, and ready for release, but that its released will be postponed to some time next week at the request of the self-same US attorney's office, so as not to impede their investigation of Gov. Blagojevich.

Salon's subhead describes delay and stonewalling, rather than conveying that the Transition team has transparently and efficiently fulfilled the President-elect's pledge of last week.

>Sociopath...Is that just a hyperbolic opinion, or a clinical diagnosis which might legally be interpreted as defamatory?

Unlike Liskula, "Anonymous" can scarce claim to be defamed.

It's about credibility, and errors that can easily be avoided. This HTWW entry includes neither primary nor secondary links to any actual release from the CEI. That's why you're calling it the "Conservative Enterprise Institute."

If you'd locate the Competitive Enterprise Institute at cei.org, and look for the actual release, you'll find the rationale this piece purports to seek.

“Given the nomination of Cass Sunstein to be head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), I hope this bodes well for the future,” adds Iain Murray, Senior Fellow in Science, Technology and Medicine. “I would expect that all future regulations will be subject to a 'Sunstein test' - if they are precautionary in nature or fail a cost-benefit analysis test, they should not go forward.”

You'll also find a co-sponsored letter to President Bush, dated 10/08, advising that the administration follow its own policy, and refrain from issuing "all but the most urgent new regulations" after 11/1/08, based on the "proper conduct of rulemaking."

http://cei.org/node/21273

The present post is mere snark, whereas the Sunstein angle is very much worth exploring in detail.