Good morning, City Desk readers, and welcome to another edition of Freedom Friday. We're wrapping up our Summer Music Guide as I type, and I can assure you that it's going to be a doozie–the kind of doozie you'll likely keep on your coffee table from May 15 through September 1 as a quick reference [...]

Delaney Projections Done Right:

I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing about.

—Jack Kerouac, On the Road

No, this isn't a post about electoral college reform, or a diatribe about the inherent inequality of the winner-take-all system–although both complaints are sound.