On a lighter note

After a fun-filled, light-hearted 4-hour City Council meeting last night (I’ve heard that this is just spring training for the 7- and 8-hour meetings we’ll get to enjoy this summer), it’s time for a little humor.

The Field of Schemes website—run by one of the authors of the excellent book Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit—has links to a number of websites and blogs, but this one—Save Our Owners!—may be the most funny. It's "The Daily Show" of stadium activist blogs.

I particularly enjoyed the post Economists Stunned by New Theory of Economics.

Here’s an excerpt . . .

Economists working on a research project at UMKC to describe why poverty exists made a shocking discovery this week, finding that poverty in urban areas is caused mostly by not sending enough public money to out-of-state sports franchise owners.