Daily Archive: December 24, 2012

December 24, 2012

What I Wish My Students Knew

There was a really wonderful and moving article in the New York Times the other day about how for poor students, getting to college is only the beginning of the battle. They often fail...

December 24, 2012

There are probably 40,000 reasons to want Piers Morgan fired from CNN….

….his views on gun control regulations isn’t one of them. And yet the people who love to cry up opposition to tyranny are demanding a legal resident of the US be deported for expressing...

December 24, 2012

Surely a sign of the Apocalypse…

I’m starting to wonder if the Mayans were at least in the right ballpark on the date of the whole end of the world thing. Last night my beloved and perennially hapless Seahawks destroyed the the...

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David TC in reply to Jaybird on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarEh, I’m not a fan of tariffs at all. If the other guy is shooting himself in the foot, why join him? Tariffs s…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025JayBird: the dance where someone asks for evidence and then, when it’s provided, they say “that’s not conclusi…
Andrew S. in reply to Jaybird on Saturday Morning Gaming: MetroidvaniasThat sounds about right from what I've seen of Hollow Knight (I think I beat the first boss and got slightly i…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarI probably wouldn't consider India a first world country but they're getting there (and good for them). Street…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarAnd, let’s face it, if I wanted to argue for tariffs at all, easy mode would be “reciprocal tariffs against fe…
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Jaybird in reply to North on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarSo I guess Trump did blink. Say what you will about Voldemort, but he would have seen it through.