This Week’s Honorary Unsubscribe: Simon Groot had an idea to help feed the world. The story in about 3 minutes.

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Real politics — the process of not running for office but crafting public policy — as is technical, difficult, and to most people utterly boring. Not only that, but most people are completely unaware of it, just as they are of (say) who won the NCAA men’s D1 championship last year. (Penn State!)

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A rough analogy is pro-wrestling vs “real” wrestling. One is exciting, filled with villains and heroes, surprises, spectacle and thrills. The other is real, difficult to master, and to most people, boring. So much so the IOC moved to drop wrestling — an Olympic sport in Ancient Greece! — in 2013.

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Thinking about the career of Sen Durbin has me thinking about a larger issue: how politics has, during my adult lifetime, become a form of show business. Which is not much of an insight, of course. But we don’t talk enough about what it really is, or, should be.

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Suggesting people are secretly gay as an insult does not boost your progressive cred.

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