Via Robert Shibley, who has an elegant solution to the problem: “1. Capitalize the schools to loan enough money for 4 years of student loans. 2. No selling the loan notes – let them loan the money and collect it. The end. What do you wanna bet that college suddenly gets rigorous and cheap?”
I’d take that bet.
For people who complain about foreign election interference, Democrats sure do a lot of it.
I’ve spent the past three days at the Suborbital Researcher’s Conference, and we’re driving back to LA from Denver tomorrow, so probably little posting until the weekend.
[Update Friday morning]
We decided to do the drive in one long day, so back in the office.
…where the good Lord split you, on the way out.
I have been continually amazed that someone who looked like a character from Star Wars ever managed to become mayor of Chicago.
ULA is apparently on the auction block.
I’ve been arguing for years that Boeing and Lockmart should be forced to divest, because a free-range ULA would be much more able to compete with SpaceX (and other potential competitors).
I’m guessing that Boeing has decided that it needs cash more than it needs to continue to keep Tory under control.
“Herein lies a lesson: A huge number of people have decided that there are a cadre of people who are so vile that any opinion they touch is immediately toxified beyond investigation. Claims are not to be evaluated on their own merits; instead, we can simply determine whether a claim ought to be supported based on those who posit it. This helps to explain why political crossover has become nearly impossible: We’re not judging the claims of our opponents; we’re judging each other. And this means that we can discard any argument simply by dint of the fact that we don’t like the person offering it. “
No, he’s not a racist.
In this topsy-turvy world, most things that are called racist are not, and many things that actually are racist are not called out on it.
Seems to be not long for this world.
This was so blatantly and obviously unconstitutional that even Pelosi said it was (at least initially). I’m cynical enough to suspect that they knew they had no hope of winning, but did this to rile up the base to again demand packing of the court.
[Update a while later]
The student-loan deception had to be called out
…is disappointed in Jeb.
Lileks at his snarkiest best.