Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Critical thinking: what does it really mean? (HT Steve Landry)
- Bill Belichick on Matthew Slater
- How Biden is continuing to cancel student debt despite Supreme Court ruling.
- Nate Silver's brutal assessment of the Biden campaign. Yet the words "corruption" or "Kamala Harris" don't even appear in the article. Another sign he may be replaced.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH on whither Europe? He doesn't say it but the EU and increased regulations are making them irrelevant.
- Reason: The Pilgrims dreamed of socialism, then socialism almost killed them. An old true story but with a new twist - John Stossel ties the story to student loan forgiveness.
- Noah Smith on why it may be time to take another hard look at the Egyptian economy.
"Student debt is mostly held by the richer half of the US population. Serious question: would it do more good if instead of giving money to people with student debt, you gave money to people without it?" - Paul Graham
Excellent question from Paul Graham - especially in light of the fact that 56% of all outstanding student debt is for graduate degrees.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: Democrats No More. "So what happened to turn the party of Harry Truman, JFK, and even Bill Clinton into a woke neo-Marxist movement?" Good question.
- Matt Taibbi: The overlooked factors in police abuse cases. Article is as much a criticism of Malcom Gladwell as the police but good writing nonetheless. Liked this quip about Gladwell, "an intellectual drive-thru quality to his approach."
- I support Eric Clapton's position. However, I feel that Dave Chappelle's is more practical. Chappelle has his audience tested (takes 15 minutes) prior to entrance into the arena with a negative test required for entry (he also takes away your cell phone but that's a separate topic).
- Matt Taibbi: The trillion-dollar lie. Two from Taibbi this morning but student loans is another area in desperate need of reform.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Iran is evil. We should not be doing any deals with them.
- It Can't Be Transitory. Interesting take on compensation.
- Traffic fatalities up 7.2% last year even as Americans drove 13% fewer miles because of lockdowns.
- 40 million will have to resume making student loan payments October 1st. Many of these folks will enjoy the summer but then be broke come Christmas as the loan payments crush their new budgets.
