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Scott Alexander: WHAT INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS DID I MAKE IN THE 2010S?

Wow

Glaciers refuse to melt at Glacier Park

Progressive Minded Washington City May Ban Use Of Natural Gas To Solve Hotcoldwetdry

US emissions are falling under Trump, thanks to fracking's war on coal

"Despite a new imperative to be scrupulous about affirmative consent, young men are still subject to incessant messages that sexual conquest... remains the measure of a 'real' man..."

Tucker Carlson Masterfully Debunks the Transgender Murder “Epidemic” Myth

Once Again, Government-Subsidized Projects Fail to Deliver. Trump’s Foxconn failure shows that targeted subsidies don’t pay off.

What is private equity, and why is it killing everything you love? Private equity led to the closing of Toys R Us and cost 30,000 workers their jobs — and it’s hardly the only example of a deal gone wrong.

Willing seller meets willing buyer. Isn't that ok?

More Chinese students arrested for photographing US naval base'

Prof calls college a 'racket,' blasts diversity hires

Is Fauxcahontas Sane?

Texas Governor Announces the State Will Not Be Accepting Any More Refugees, Becomes First in Nation to Decline Them

The Reagan Revolution Gives Way to the Trump Revolution - As with Reagan, Democrats and the media panic.

New Lawsuit Claims Rod Rosenstein Led Task Force that Spied on Sharyl Attkisson’s Computers

FBI Apologizes To Court For Surveillance Of Carter Page, Pledges Fixes

Intelligence Community’s Inspector General Is the Link Between FISAgate and Impeachment

Trey Gowdy Reveals Real Reason Democrats Impeached Trump

How McConnell Outplayed Pelosi

WE NOW KNOW: THE STEELE DOSSIER BACILLUS

Under pressure, Iran admits it shot down jetliner by mistake

The IRGC Just Admitted All The Terrorism/War Proxies They Are Working Behind Across Region

Iran’s attacks against the US in Iraq accomplished what was intended. Behind the Lines: A large amount of noise and smoke

Trump's Approval Rating Among Terrorists Hits All-Time Low

Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter. President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter

No Senate Democrats Support Measure Praising Military For Killing Soleimani. All GOP Senators Supported Same Resolution About Bin Laden During Obama Years

Five Obama Foreign Policy Messes That Trump Is Cleaning Up

Democrats Are Out of Touch on Foreign Affairs, Too

The new socialism, like the old, will not protect Jews

Or Christians, or Muslims

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I just read someone (wish I could recall who) who declared that Scott Alexander is the greatest public intellectual to emerge in the 2010's. I find his work challenging, but not hard to understand. He is an atheist who says he was "almost persuaded" after reading tons of C.S. Lewis, and one of those who started on the left but have been moving rightward, issue by issue. (Note: he remains quite liberal on several issues) He's just brilliant, noticing things in plain sight that the rest of us miss. He has changed my mind on a few things.

I also like that he did not come through traditional academic and media channels, but carved out his niche with long, thoughtful blog posts that gradually developed a following. He attracts so many commenters, at such a high level, that you aren't going to get in with your own opinion there.

#1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-01-11 09:53 (Reply)

I read the article about young men and sexual conquest and could not identify with it at all. It seems made up or small quotes pulled from obscure events. It certainly wasn't balanced. Let's talk about reality. We are all here today because god or mother nature has instilled both sexes with the desire/mandate to procreate. Who here hasn't been in the steamy backseat of a car working on mysteries without any clue. When I was a young man the girls were aggressive, and I thank them for that. Many a young lady was very "nice" to me. I recall when a friend and I were dating identical twins they swapped on us and honestly I would not have noticed except that one twin was a little more sexual than the other. But any hint of this was missing from the story. The girls openly talked about their conquests. I remember one time being privy to a conversation where three young ladies talked a about oral sex and how they drove the boys crazy. And I thank them for that too. When I was 16 a 15 YO girl I knew met me at her front door in baby dolls and went out of her way to make sure I could see what little the baby dolls hid. For what ever reason I did not date her but she then did the same thing to a friend of mine who did date her and needed a hurry up marriage to stay out of jail. Don't get me wrong she was a nice young lady and I still send a Christmas card to them every year now some 60 years later. But this is normal, this what humans do.

#2 Anon on 2020-01-11 10:58 (Reply)

YO!!! I vasn't dere, Sharley. I vass a slooooooo bloomer, unt ve ver both off age.

#2.1 Sam L. on 2020-01-11 11:10 (Reply)

In re: FoxConn deal
Veronica repeats talking points from anti-FoxConn sources. Much of Wisconsin's economic incentive is tied to actual jobs created. If those jobs numbers are not achieved the incentives will not be earned. It is a tax device that essentially allows FoxConn to retain, as an incentive to locate there, some of the "new" money that their operations bring into the state! Also, people who fill those jobs will prosper and become a new or "improved" individual tax payers.
Admittedly, infrastructure costs are sunk but I dare say are no worse than the Obama-era infrastructure spending gift to road builders and their unions. Many projects were started up and taken to the point where it was not possible to halt them without leaving a mess of impassable main roads. This guaranteed that states would be trapped into funding projects they otherwise could/may have delayed or spread out through a more normal timeframe.
Actually the new freeway corridor from Chicago to Milwaukee is substantially better with the long needed improvements.

#3 Louie Miller on 2020-01-11 11:06 (Reply)

Elizabeth Warren is just as sane as any sociopath, thank you very much. Her engagement with the public is calculated in every aspect of life, and I think a lot of it has paid off for her. She knows exactly what prospective voters in her demographic want to hear, and unlike other candidates, she is no camera hog; and this allows her to get her message out and then clear off the stage before the embarrassing questions start up about what she has said in the past, or worse, what she has actually done. It seems to be working out pretty well, so far. I think she has very good control of the media messaging in many aspects. Of course, the media are wholly sympathetic to her party affiliations, and this leaves her owing them a lot; she wouldn't last long if they were to go into piranha mode. This is probably her biggest vulnerability once the street fighting for the nomination starts up.

#4 Aggie on 2020-01-11 11:07 (Reply)

The problem with private equity is that the rules don't cover it and prevent problems. Many of the rules we have today that restrict what banks, investors and market institutions do were created AFTER the lack of rules were exploited to the point where it caused a collapse. We seem to only shut the barn door after the horses have gone and in fact died of old age. A billionaire or a foreign country can enter our markets, buy a controlling interest in a company and then destroy that company if they so choose and all of this harms all of us and most certainly all of the small investors. I'm sure it isn't all bad news, I'm sure there are examples where this has worked out to save the company and benefited the small investors. But that does not change the fact that there is abuse.

#5 OneGuy on 2020-01-11 11:21 (Reply)

MITT ROMNEY was unavailable for comment on this article!

PRIVATE EQUITY = PARASITE CAPITALISM; designed to create nothing, aside from profits for the "parasite."

Basically, it's a form of asset and labor-stripping, reducing the means of production into some lower form of salable scrap.

Think of it as "bankruptcy," without the limiting Rules, forms, laws and referees (i.e. judges and courts).

#5.1 Turret Gunner on 2020-01-12 12:01 (Reply)

Under pressure, Iran admits it shot down jetliner by mistake

Hmm... I guess it wasn't Trump's fault after all.

#6 mudbug on 2020-01-11 12:01 (Reply)

Oh, no, Iran and the U.S. left are still blaming him for it. The "mistake" would never have happened if he'd never been born. In fact, Iran is looking almost straightforward today compared to how the Western left continues to spin this situation.

#6.1 Texan99 on 2020-01-11 13:01 (Reply)

Truth is, it's actually all the fault of Xerxes I.

If only that big expedition against the Greeks hadn't been such a flop!

#6.1.1 JJM on 2020-01-11 17:59 (Reply)

Now that we have 90% efficient gas furnaces (they extract the heat from the water vapor so have to drain the condensate), and 99.9% emission free gas appliances that require not exterior venting, except in the most airtight houses, we must ban the use of gas for heating.

Seems logical.

#7 JK Brown on 2020-01-11 14:41 (Reply)

The number of sane women in the democratic party in Congress can be counted on one finger...the one next to the middle finger.

Rod Rosenstein is dirty along with many others. The problem is trying to find a government lawyer that will prosecute another government lawyer or judge. Shut down the entire FISA court system. It is corrupted from one end to the other and will never be reformed and have that reformation upheld. Only a heaven on earth believer would think it won't relapse.

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2020-01-11 18:48 (Reply)

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