The other day I briefly pondered what a Political Science Store would look like, after hearing about Anthropologie–a national chain of clothing stores.* 

I received a bunch of ideas via facebook, twitter, and my blog, so I had to come up with different sections of the store:

• Used:  
• Tables (mostly in 2×2 dimensions);
• old Prisoner Dilemmas; 
• Linear Regressions with several assumptions already violated; 
• Political Culture arguments that come with “Racism Within” warning tags; 
• Old Wine in New Bottles;
• Canadian goods: 
• Crowns;
• a barren shelf labeled Oversight;
• lots of oui’s and non’s at a steep discount;
• Comparative Politics: 
• a bin full of apples, oranges and frisbees; 
• one bowling ball; 
• checks and balances; 
• Policy: except for some windows, this section is mostly empty.
• International Relations: 
• Heaps of Images and Levels, some games with multiple levels; 
• some play-doh (it is what you make of it);
• international organization kits–most require consensus to be added;
• a random collection of alliances–but be warned they bind both more and less than expected;
• War: there are less than there used to be, but still not entirely out of style.
• Saideman’s Spew Sauces: Ignorance, Perspective, Denial, Secret, Distraction, Awesome.  I am thinking of adding sarcasm sauce to the collection, but seven is an odd number.  I will have to figure out another one to round it off at an eight-pack.

*  Yes, I usually let Brian take the funny Monday slot, but figured we could share the post-Thanksgiving silly slot just this one time.