Shiver the timbers

More amusement today as Tom Hamilton was discussing how the cold weather is affecting the Tribe's bats, followed by the 8-5 Pirates (yes, Pirates!) win over the Cubs and then how the Red Sox put a 4-spot on the board in the tropical paradise of Yankee Stadium.  Yes, the cold is certainly suppressing offense everywhere.....

https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2018/03/the-free-trade-malaise/
Reading this article (which I liked), I kept thinking of the last chapter of The Proud Tower, where Tuchman discusses the death of Jaures, the French Socialist who believed that a national uprising of the workers would prevent a big war...and of course, it didn't.  I am not sure that things are as dire as they say, but I did like the part about politicians using trade deals to do what needs to be done when the voters say you cannot...

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180410/as-early-voting-begins-for-ohio-primary-have-trump-democrats-become-republicans-for-good
Remember when all of the GOPers were clamoring for closed primaries?  Yeah, me neither.  :)  I don't know; I suspect some of these people are converts, others are Operation Chaos types, and the rest.. won't be voting.