Newmark's Door

It's a little difficult to believe that one person could exert so much influence, but it's the CCP, so I suppose almost anything is possible.

"The prevalence of remote learning in schools educating our most vulnerable students was no accident."

I've got just one question: where the heck are all the conservative billionaires? Maybe they should decrease funding to think tanks and devote more money to winning elections.

Related: "Who is George Soros and Why He Hates America".

Sad to see my former employer get caught up in the current goofiness.

Article argues it may well be another "psychogenic" illness. (Which, note, does not mean it is all in their heads. The symptoms are very much real. But psychogenic refers to the origin of the symptoms.)

Sounds like a good target for reform:

Fifty years since NEPA was signed into law, the process has become a bureaucratic nightmare. The latest data show that completing an EIS takes four and a half years, on average. One-quarter of the statements take upward of six years. Some projects drag on even longer: the approval process for a 12-mile expansion of Interstate 70 in Denver took 13 years to complete, with a final impact statement running 8,951 pages (not including an additional 7,307 pages of appendices).

Consistent with Newmark's Third Law: if something screwy is happening, ask if government is involved.

Impressive when you see them listed all together like this.

6.5 minute video making the secondary point that as a society we are really, really rich. I used the anecdote about Nathan Rothschild in one  of my classes. I think it is dramatic as hell.

(But I object to the interpretation of the Pew poll. The video assumes the question pertains just to economic well being. It could well have been interpreted by respondents much more broadly to include such things as the current awful cultural conflict.)

Not that it was difficult to do.