Category Archives: Science And Society

Air Conditioning

Remembering those days before it.

I remember sleepless summer nights in southeast Michigan. Our parents did get a window unit for their bedroom, but we sometimes slept outside on the balcony off our bedroom. I would wet a washcloth and put it over my forehead. It wasn’t usually a problem at our cabin up north, though.

But I’d be happy if it was outlawed in DC. A/C was the beginning of the downfall of the Republic, when that fetid swamp became a tolerable place to live for power mongers.

The University

Why I’m leaving it.”

Something is going to have to give.

[Wednesday-morning update]

The Biden administration advances “sweeping” reforms of the federal student-loan program.

The only “sweeping” reform I want to see is to sweep it clean, and eliminate it.

[Update mid morning]

I mentioned this in comments, but wages have dropped for professors.