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Auction Block: Any Given Tuesday

By Eric Angevine

Monday, November 3, 2008

[Ed's note: If this interests you, you should also read this.] We expect our politicians to represent us when they take office. Not just in the literal sense in which a congressman is a stand-in for his district, or a President speaks the will of his nation, but also in the metaphorical sense. We want the actual person to at least pay some lip service to the notion that he shares our likes and dislikes, including our passion for sports. (And they often do.) When a governor winds up to throw ...

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