Day: July 1, 2019

What is the Point of Higher Education? mortarboards

What is the Point of Higher Education?

Jaybird July 1, 2019

Back in 2018, I wondered what the Point of Lower Education was. Specifically, I asked the question...

Looks Like Rain: Cloudbursts, Pittsburgh, and the Grateful Dead

DW Dalrymple July 1, 2019

It seems fitting to me now that the Grateful Dead's “The Rain Show” would be the last...

Trump Meets Kim, Steps in North Korea Trump

Trump Meets Kim, Steps in North Korea

Andrew Donaldson July 1, 2019

President Donald Trump went there...North Korea, that is.

Starting The Vacation Off Wrong 2019-06-24 CABriggs HtStDoW 3069 Short Vacation

Starting The Vacation Off Wrong

Clare Briggs July 1, 2019

Making it a short one...

Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHas he shown up recently? I'm still here, barely. In fact, I just submitted a guest post which hopef…
Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?The benchmark that makes sense to me: Can it beat Pokemon? 10-year-olds can beat Pokemon.
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Apparently, a guy went down to the address and, when the lady who lives there came out of his house,…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Eh, it's fixing the problems you can talk about instead of the problems you can't talk about. And, a…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Having a philosophy background, I'm sure you've thought a lot about language and thought (the house…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The good news is that the article itself goes back to the good term: Department data shows nearly ha…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The Newsweek article talks about stuff from 2023. But, hey. People make mistakes. Does the governmen…