According to Wikipedia...

Voting for the Hall of Fame has become the equivalent of trying to pass a budget through Congress. That's partly because the Baseball Writers' Association of America has become as polarized as Congress.

On one side, we have writers who see suspected users of performance-enhancing drugs as cheats, and so they will never vote for them under any circumstances, regardless of their awards and accomplishments. Rachel Maddow might say these writers are the BBWAA equivalent of the Tea Party.

East Pakistan did not survive, and there was a war when it unraveled. But Alaska isn't going anywhere.

Alaska isn't really a good example. Nobody lives up in Alaska, or and the two surrounding Canadian provinces, British Columbia, and the Yukon either have their population center much further away, or none at all. There's simply isn't enough people in either area to have a dispute. While places like Pakistan or Palestine seems to be bursting with people, which helps create tension.

And speaking of Prussia, or ex-Prussia, there is now Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) - Russia, wedged between Poland and Lithuania.

Yeah, that's a weird one. What are the people there? Russians? Poles? Lithuanians? Germans?

According to wiki, about a million people live in the Kaliningrad Oblast, and their ethnicity is given as 86% Russian with most of the rest being Ukranian and Belorussian. Poles, Germans, and Lithuanians are all at 1% or less. What this ethnic distribution represents is an extremely effective act of ethnic cleansing between 1944 and 1950. The Germans all went somewhere else and never came back.

What this ethnic distribution represents is an extremely effective act of ethnic cleansing between 1944 and 1950. The Germans all went somewhere else and never came back.

Looking at that motion, I think Netanyahu is going to need rotator cuff surgery at some point.

Also, they seem to be playing on the tiniest baseball diamond in history.

Certainly seems more practical. Long-term wacky boundaries in which a chunk of a country is on the other side of another country sounds like a pain in the butt.

It's even less politically feasible, but doesn't a three state solution (Israel/Gaza/West Bank) essentially codifying the current arrangement seem the most practical solution?

Danzig (Gdansk) was a historically German city prior to the demise of West Prussia, IIRC

Such a "solution" would be equivalent to "Greater Israel," which is what Bibi and Avi are playing for anyway.

Yes; Sam's an expert on Israeli politics.

Looking at that motion, I think Netanyahu is going to need rotator cuff surgery at some point.

Here's a snippet of an article from ESPN's Jim Caple likening Andy to the Tea Party:

I presume this is Netanyahu's reaction to baseball's new rule that you can no longer just fake a pickoff at third to try to get the runner at first.

Such a "solution" would be equivalent to "Greater Israel," which is what Bibi and Avi are playing for anyway

Yes; Sam's an expert on Israeli politics.

You can always spot a good political cartoonist by the way his characters always wear giant buttons that say "WASHINGTON D.C. INSIDERS" or "THE CONCERNED TAXPAYER."

A "three state solution" would not be remotely equivalent to the "Greater Israel" sought by some on the Israeli Right-
that would require the expulsion of most Palestinians from the West bank into Jordan, and the annexation of the West Bank into Israel "proper"- as insane as that idea is, those seeking a Greater Israel are nonetheless actually pretty stumped about what to do with Gaza... although I think the preferred "solution" is letting Egypt have it.

My understanding is that any solution that doesn't apply some sort of contiguous line border and a shared capitol of Jerusalem is little more than biding time until the settlers occupy every square inch of Palestinian Jerusalem and make it a moot point.

You can always spot a good political cartoonist by the way his characters always wear giant buttons that say "WASHINGTON D.C. INSIDERS" or "THE CONCERNED TAXPAYER."

Alaska isn't really a good example. Nobody lives up in Alaska, or and the two surrounding Canadian provinces, British Columbia, and the Yukon either have their population center much further away, or none at all. There's simply isn't enough people in either area to have a dispute.