Day: February 26, 2020

Wednesday Writs: The Daubert Standard Supreme Court

Wednesday Writs: The Daubert Standard

Em Carpenter February 26, 2020

L1: In 1973 in California, a woman gave birth to a baby boy who, although tests would...

Two Different Attitudes Toward Chance chance

Two Different Attitudes Toward Chance

Jaybird February 26, 2020

Board Game Symposium: Guys. It's time for some game theory.

Hunting For Squirrel CABriggs Friend 1054 Hunting Squirrel crop

Hunting For Squirrel

Clare Briggs February 26, 2020

When a feller needs a shot.

Multiple CEOs Step Down empty

Multiple CEOs Step Down

Jaybird February 26, 2020

Mastercard, Salesforce, and Disney all had CEOs step down today.

Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreWe have tracking because the alternative is concentrated poverty. Insisting my kid can't get a good…
Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreSo the choice is that either my daughter gets a sub-standard education or some random kid ends up on…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.