…are functionally illiterate.
This won’t end well.
[Friday-morning update]
Some education horror stories.
Category Archives: Business
No, LA Times
Highway One is not being damaged by fossil fuels.
In The Air
Heading to Orlando, via West Palm Beach. Both flights (went through Charlotte) have been delayed for lack of flight attendents…
Lawyers
How they destroyed practical adult education.
The Largest Wealth Flight In History
Congratulations, California.
Blue Origin
…has an impressive turnaround on the first booster it recovered.
The Canary In The Coal Mine Of Hollywood
The Sunset Strip is dying.
I’ve never habituated the place, though I’ve often driven down it in the daytime on the way to somewhere else. I haven’t done it in a while. Probably a lot less business for the “Sunset pigs” that Joni Mitchell sung about in her song California.
2026 In Space
Stephen Clark has a round up of both domestic and international planned activities, with probability estimates.
High- Versus Low-Trust Societies
Why who we allow to immigrate into the country matters:
When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) January 6, 2026
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?
But over time, I…
Lileks
…is (finally) throwing in the towel on Minnesota, after living there most of his life.