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- What if college athletes weren't afraid to speak up? He's not wrong.
- Prisoner no more: The true story of Tae Jin Park. Worth a half hour of your time.
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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- What if college athletes weren't afraid to speak up? He's not wrong.
- Prisoner no more: The true story of Tae Jin Park. Worth a half hour of your time.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- What I told my daughter about climate change. Lucky I'm from New England and you can see the warming and cooling and the glaciers coming and going for million years,
- Jonathan Turley on Kamala Harris and bad idea jeans.
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- Glenn Reynolds on dealing with a mom with Alzheimer's.
- Media coverage (or not) of of RCP8.5 RIP.
- Cyberattack hits Canvas system used by thousands of schools as school finals loom.
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- US Dept of Ed opens Title IX investigation into Smith College for admitting transgenders. Never thought of this before because pretty sure males can take classes at Smith but could this put all their federal funds at risk?
- IPCC admits that apocalyptic climate scenarios are "improbable." Talk about an inconvenient truth.
- College football coaches throwing support behind 24-team CFP format.
- The "AI Job Apocalypse" is a Complete Fantasy. Long article but it make the point.
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- GameStop makes $5.5 billion takeover offer for eBay. What does Reddit say about the bid?
- The world's most important science advisory committee.
- Why Golden Tempo's Kentucky Derby win could be worth $25 million.
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- Texas Tech's QB Brendan Sorsby checks himself into rehab for a gambling addition. That thud you just heard was Sorsby's draft stock.
- Understanding the iron law of climate policy.
- The 2026 Kentucky Derby and gambling algorithms. Would be interesting if someone ran a comparison of how different AI's were able to predict races between say ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc.
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- Jonathan Turley on the legality of the redistricting map voted for by Virginia. Reminder the voters of Virginia also voted to secede from the Union - ask Robert E. Lee if that vote was overturned.
- The climate change function problem.
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- I'm just learning about Waifu Amelia and I love how she's been adopted in England.
- Jonathan Turley on Keith Ellison in Minnesota.
- Duke files suit over QB Darian Mensah's intention to transfer.
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- The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? Long but interesting read (especially if you can power through the AI nerd speak).
- Great medical tip. Hope I don't need to use it but forewarned is forearmed.
- Carbon taxes are more problematic than they seem. If your eyes aren't glazed over yet - here's some taxes and accounting talk.
- Global tropical cyclone landfall. Today must be stats day.
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- Matt Ridley: The great climate climbdown is finally here.
- New Harvard president faults faculty activism for chilling campus debate and free speech. Progress I guess but isn't Harvard's way of punishing a student is to give them a B instead of an A?
- The most important question of your life.
- Now I'm upset I did not watch this game. This was amazing. Instead I watched Iron Man II and Iron Man III as background as I read. Mea culpa!
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- The invention of "climate risk" - politically brilliant but fatally flawed.
- The real Watergate scandal. Reminder that the screenplay to All the President's Men was written by William Goldman (who was not exactly known for any documentaries). (HT Execupundit)
- How the Chiefs landed perhaps the most lopsided deal in NFL history. Great googly-moogly.
- From the archives: the origin of the use of "om" in meditation.
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- Congress should go retro on its correspondence. Agree 100% and also agree on Thomas Sowell.
- The banality of evil. We need to be reminded to remember this fact from time to time.
- I though all Australia was a gun free zone? Did anyone get Jim Jeffries response?
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- The new US National Security strategy and the Pacific.
- From the archives: What the most successful people do before breakfast.
- Hurray! Climate Change is over!
- The Climate-Risk Industrial Complex. Turtles all the way down.
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- The Paris Delusion: The touted achievements of global climate initiatives aren't rooted in reality. How dare they!
- UAB football player arrested after stabbing two teammates. This is a sad story all around.
- Tyler Cowen's best non-fiction books of 2025. Wish he'd rank them but as it is I added a couple in subjects that interest me.
- Court Filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled children. Why anyone is on Meta (Facebook) is beyond me.
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- Jonathan Turley: UK health watchdog refuses to release data on vaccine deaths.
- From the archives: The Pilgrims dreamed of socialism - then socialism almost killed them.
- The Ralph Baric - CIA - Wuhan Lan Covid-19 connections. People died and people need to be held accountable.
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- My head in the morning. Like the idea of "little successes" to start the day.
- VDH: From the League of Nations to the United Nations to Trump Global? He's not wrong,
- From the archives: The top 10 boxing matches from recent history.
- When the science police don't understand the science they are policing. Climate change was always a hoax.
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- Back to Subic Bay... with Friends? From his lips to God's ears.
- Suspect in fatal Charlotte stabbing of Ukrainian refugee charged with federal crime. Good! Take it out of the hands of the judges that gave the killer a revolving door.
- DOE Climate Working Group RIP. Good - even if it was done with a legal loophole. Science and policy should be kept separate.
- American students score historic lows in science, math, and reading. Think funding students instead of schools could help reverse this.