Normal Men

Grab bag (contains at least one Politics, probably an Econ). Canada has the water. We have some ideas about staffing.

Airline reporter mentioned on the show: @wanderme.paxex.aero.

Ugarles joins us to talk meats, football, and SCOTUS. Alito has grievances, Roberts has neighbors, and retiring at the right time turns out to be part of the job. Plus: major questions doctrine, lower-court obedience, and the difference between calling balls and strikes and being a super mod.

Find Charles on Bluesky and at his link hub, including his 52+1 podcast appearance challenge. Listen to No Homework with Patrick Cosmos and L. Ron Mexico, and City Saint/Country Saint with L. Ron Mexico.

Also plugged: Ape Shit, Carrie McLaren's zine about humans and other primates. Its first issue examines Helping Hands' helper-monkey program. Available from OR Books.

This is a normal amount to think about an Idaho Senate race, I don't know what you're talking about.

Donate to Todd Achilles’s campaign.

Musicology Duck returns with a unifying theory of Trump's inner playlist! Also: architecture in the DMV, midterm polling, and diesel prices. Follow Musicology Duck.

Why every enterprise open-weight model is bad, digging holes in your yard, consumer AI and warfare, the Amodei Pause, capex math, and dayenu on the models. Lowtax turns up late with a dispatch on Ian Paisley Jr. Plus Cascadia subduction, the generic ballot, and the correct amount of Tajin.