Matthew Yglesias says I blame Ted Kennedy for the ridiculous homeland security grant formula that I wrote about here. Uh, no. Actually I say that small-state senators are the problem, and that “[t]hese senators can’t imagine any reason for being in Washington other than to shove lucre back to their home states.” Apparently it was a brief Kennedy family reference that was a joke–or should I say an attempted joke?–that rubbed Yglesias the wrong way.