“Unlawful assembly” … that’s when you’re exercising your “unfree speech” rights.
Jean-Claude Larchet:
Self-love appears then to be deeply pathogenic on many levels, and is considered by the Fathers … as the mark of a man who has become mad and as itself being mad and profoundly irrational.
Apropos of nothing, my daughter Bea was just the cutest little goofball. And her oldest brother is still jealous that she could curl her tongue, when he can’t.
It is unconscionable that there is not a guillotine emoji.
Vicki Hiatt and Stan Lockhart in the Spectator:
As state party chairs from opposite parties, we see the incredible promise of adopting ranked choice voting
Gastro-sartorial cognitive dissonance, FTW
Call 911 for a woman who is changing clothes in an alley? A new program in Denver sends mental health professionals instead of police.
Bad headline, good summary of McAfee’s argument. Free markets are only free if they’re well-regulated.
Grant, O Lord, eternal rest unto your departed servant David Graeber, and make his memory to be eternal.
If we’re not taking cookies to the police who just shot our neighbor in the back, or bringing sandwiches to the BLM protesters who just torched a local franchise, maybe we shouldn’t call ourselves Christians?
Homemade poached eggs on cornbread. Cook in background.
“Despite the authoritarian rule of Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s tech companies have prospered.”
If it were abnormal for techno capitalism to thrive under tyranny, China would be more like Taiwan.
I’m not saying David Tepper is a hopeless grifter, I’m saying that his moral development could benefit if he had a job where he’s not feeding from the public trough, or pitting citizens of one state against another.
Grifters gonna grift: Billionaire Tepper Takes Heat for Laying Off Panthers Staff.
22 Year Study Finds Hedge Fund Managers Collect 64% of Investors’ Gross Returns. If the net effects or provisions of a contract can’t be summarized in a quick email, someone’s probably getting swindled.
One standard deviation of the monthly change in jobs between 1939 and 2019 is 223,000. … The negative 21 million job report in April counts as a 35.7 standard deviation event.
Original plan was 12 stories: Raleigh approves rezoning for new 40-story tower in downtown. Maybe they needed a couple extra floors to expand local food banks for all the people going without during the pandemic?
They have reasons, but a headline like this is never a good look: Orange County rejects request to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
Trump Claims China Had Thousands More Virus Deaths Than Reported, but he’s probably understating things.
Learn to see the world clearly. As it is, in its nature. Ideologies indoctrinate. Shed them. Free yourself. Do the work.
“Operate like they’re in their teens”
