I totally get the anger that has created Trump. I share it. But I will never understand why they don’t see that he’s a false vessel for it.
Also, this is funny but sad, about Whole Foods customers.
[Update a while later]
This seems related: The new WASPs are Asians in Silicon Valley.
…that could sway the election.
I think they’re more than five. And his fifth one is more of an ongoing process than an “event.”
“Hey, Bernie, don’t lecture me on socialism; I lived through it.”
The problem with this idea is that we have secret ballots. So the men will just lie to get nookie, and vote for him anyway.
The manifesto of the committee to abolish it.
To be honest, I had never previously realized how terrible outer space is.
When people ask why college tuition is so high, defenders of the higher-education system point to things like “Baumol’s cost disease” (costs in industries without much productivity growth tend to rise, because they have to compete for labor with more productive industries) and declining state contributions to public colleges. No doubt these play a part. But this cannot explain the vast upgrades in college residential amenities that have taken place in the 20 years since I graduated from college, when a student union and some ivy on the walls was about the best you could expect.
But of course, our parents were paying for it, and they didn’t care whether we had a swimming pool. A certain Spartan element was supposed to be part of the ritual of college attendance, just as it had been when they were in college. What changed? I suspect the answer is that rising tuition, and the increasing reliance on student loans, has placed more of the financial responsibility into the hands of students. And the students shop for colleges based on … well, about what you’d expect when you give tens of thousands of dollars to 18-year-olds and ask where they’d like to spend the next four years.
This is policy insanity.
I think we’ve come to the point at which academia is just one huge case of Poe’s Law.
Why you might want to ditch yours for a dumb one.
I hate cell phones, but once in a while I need a smart-phone feature. But I generally only use it when I’m traveling. As I’ve noted in the past, young people have no conception of what good phone service is like.
Not as much as some want us to think.
#ProTip: If you want to have a high probability of stopping Trump, get behind Cruz. If you want to throw the dice, try to get to convention.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 7, 2016
[Late-morning update]
Kurt Schlichter has sympathy for the Donaldites.
So do I, but The Donald isn’t their (or anyone else’s) salvation.
RIP. The media is treating her much more kindly in her death than it did during her husband’s presidency.