Andrea Clark
andreaclark.bsky.social
Andrea Clark
@andreaclark.bsky.social
This editorial could’ve been a Facebook post
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Grok loves the word “rewrite”
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I appreciate the commitment to both using (“If I were”) and not using (“and I was told”) the subjunctive in the same sentence.
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Agreed, although it’s a little different when the official was a high-profile employee of the same institution for a long time.
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In ‘09 Greinke and Lincecum were each 25.

In ‘85 Saberhagen was 21, and he was the older one! Gooden was 20.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The only reason bubbles even happen is because lots of people participating in them know quite well that they’re bubbles. If all the people who know this is a bubble got out, it would pop immediately.

You don’t leave just because it’s a bubble. You leave when you think it’s about to pop.
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If you liked inflation you’ll love inflation + shortages
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I could charter a plane, maybe more than once, for less than my premiums are about to go up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I actually think a campaign that moves an outcome by 2% has done pretty well.

Not saying that even happened here. But outcomes are mostly the candidates and the environment, not the campaigns.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ok but they licensed “All Caps” to Claude and I cannot have a problem with that.
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Andrea Clark
If there’s a farm bailout, “government finances will look a lot less promising and lead to higher yields on corporate and government debt. .. a new cohort of welfare recipients will have been created, which will be difficult to terminate and will only add to the challenging fiscal outlook ..”
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
50 people in the Forbes 400 got farm subsidies!
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“if there’s a farm bailout” like we don’t already run a permanent farm bailout program

$30 billion a year to a group wealthier than average Americans

www.cato.org/briefing-pap...
Cutting Federal Farm Subsidies
Farm subsidies are costly to taxpayers and can distort planting decisions, induce overproduction, and inflate land values.
www.cato.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
who would pay for college when there are libraries
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I thought what they were going for was, “these No Kings protestors are jobless losers.”

But it came out sounding like, “accept Trump as monarch or lose your job.”
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
But that’s because I decided getting past the button was more important than the risk of any consequences, not because I “agreed” to anything.

Toddlers know pressing friendly buttons is sometimes the only way to make the computer work. They’re not “agreeing” to anything, and neither am I.
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
When I click a friendly-looking button without reading anything, I haven’t “agreed,” in the ordinary sense of the word, to the California choice-of-law provision in the TOS that I don’t even know about.

Will my clicking the button have legal consequences anyway? Maybe!
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My point is more about the plain meaning of the word “agree.” Framing clickwrap as an “agreement” is anti-consumer and I wish people wouldn’t go along with it.

(Unless you’re a lawyer writing clickwrap for a living, in which case you’re just doing your job.)
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“agreed” is one way of characterizing it.

It’s not as if it’s incontrovertible that someone has “agreed” to something just because a website says they’ve agreed to it.
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Policies “that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s gender-identity choices” — wow those sound terrible.

Now how about policies that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to healthcare for their children?
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The kernel of truth here is that without the individual mandate the ACA never had a chance to work as intended.
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you made Medicare Part D feel sad
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM