“In effect, the Court created a separate category of people—beyond the scope of all the plaintiffs in the lower-court cases—in order to find a situation where the Trump travel ban could still apply.” source
“Add “teaching failure” to nap pods (yes, those exist) and campus petting zoos (also common), and you’ve got to wonder, as a cover story in Psychology Today questioned last year: At what point do colleges end up more like mental health wards than institutions of higher learning?” source
“You have to look at your kids honestly, and with hard eyes. They’re imperfect, and parents can’t make them perfect. My job is to make them more like me…their mother’s job is to undo all of that.” source
“So while this was certainly not the outcome that the Democratic Party and its supporters were hoping for in Georgia, tonight was further evidence that the Republicans are completely screwed in the midterms. The Republican Party will struggle to retain seats in even the solid-red districts, while the Democrats are in position to make major gains in the moderate districts, while retaining all of their existing blue district seats. Any Republican who thinks tonight was […]
“What Bode was saying was this: “Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.” Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity — it is very much like compound interest. […]
“”Our ethanol policy by itself has lead to, by now, a doubling of global food prices. The deregulation of the markets leads to peaks that lie on top of a gradual increase that’s due to the ethanol policy,” he said. “The peaks are the triggers of the food riots and the Arab Spring, but the underlying increase plays an important part as well.”” source
“The experiences of that city is instructive: Austin did not immediately fall back into the clutches of evil taxi companies. Instead, the vacuum Uber and Lyft left was filled by local startups and nonprofits such as Fasten, Ride Austin, Fare, Wingz, Arcade City, and the Austin Underground Rideshare Community. Getting a ride in Austin today isn’t any different than it was before Uber and Lyft left town. Same drivers, same riders, same smartphones, same traffic.” […]
“He’d absorbed so much pressure, so much vitriol, and so many attacks—he assured people that it was possible to go beyond the pain barrier.” source