You're right. Nascent is the wrong word. Incipient? He screwed Franklin over when he published the papers 1953, got the Nobel in 1962, and published The Double Helix in 1968.
January 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
You're right. Nascent is the wrong word. Incipient? He screwed Franklin over when he published the papers 1953, got the Nobel in 1962, and published The Double Helix in 1968.
I'd suggest that he likely harbored the same views in some nascent form and, like Adams and many successful people, achievement led him to the polymath illusion, expertise spillover effect. Success in one realm made him think he was an expert in other areas he had no real business opining on.
January 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I'd suggest that he likely harbored the same views in some nascent form and, like Adams and many successful people, achievement led him to the polymath illusion, expertise spillover effect. Success in one realm made him think he was an expert in other areas he had no real business opining on.
Why the slap at your own party? Ron Wyden, Dem of Oregon is trying to get exactly what you are asking for: www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne... Sen. Sanders had a similar bnill Democrats are not against PBM pricing transparency. In fact, they are some of the strongest supporters. So why the slap?
Crapo, Wyden Introduce Bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Crapo, Wyden Introduce Bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager Legislation
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January 9, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Why the slap at your own party? Ron Wyden, Dem of Oregon is trying to get exactly what you are asking for: www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne... Sen. Sanders had a similar bnill Democrats are not against PBM pricing transparency. In fact, they are some of the strongest supporters. So why the slap?
What in the world are you saying? The taxpayers are all of us. ACA tax credits made coverage affordable for 22 million+ people. Medicaid expansion significantly increased coverage without proportionally increasing per‑capita costs. You don't need to suck up to MAGAs--they'll still vote against you.
January 9, 2026 at 12:25 AM
What in the world are you saying? The taxpayers are all of us. ACA tax credits made coverage affordable for 22 million+ people. Medicaid expansion significantly increased coverage without proportionally increasing per‑capita costs. You don't need to suck up to MAGAs--they'll still vote against you.
Tim Minchin: youtu.be/LAzodf69rfk?...
If I Didn't Have You by Tim Minchin
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January 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Exactly. TCW shows his hand in so many ways, but the adoption of MAGA grievance culture is one of the saddest.
December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Exactly. TCW shows his hand in so many ways, but the adoption of MAGA grievance culture is one of the saddest.
I don’t disagree in principle, but I think a candidate’s job right now is not to educate the voters about how wrong they are. We’ve tried that and it hasn’t had a great track record. To win, we need to meet people where they are and shift the focus, which I think he did well!
December 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don’t disagree in principle, but I think a candidate’s job right now is not to educate the voters about how wrong they are. We’ve tried that and it hasn’t had a great track record. To win, we need to meet people where they are and shift the focus, which I think he did well!
To be honest, I’d have to say the Ump’s call of Chuck Knoblauch's supposed tag on Jose Offerman in the ALCS in '99 just edges this one out. :) Seriously though, looking forward to getting my hands on this book. Congratulations!
December 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
To be honest, I’d have to say the Ump’s call of Chuck Knoblauch's supposed tag on Jose Offerman in the ALCS in '99 just edges this one out. :) Seriously though, looking forward to getting my hands on this book. Congratulations!
And also, he would need to cultivate the ability to…think
December 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
And also, he would need to cultivate the ability to…think
Harrowing is definitely the word. My 17 year old just got their license and I continue to live in the Catch-22 of their need for to drive more to improve their skill and their need to drive less because they...need to improve their their skill.
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Harrowing is definitely the word. My 17 year old just got their license and I continue to live in the Catch-22 of their need for to drive more to improve their skill and their need to drive less because they...need to improve their their skill.
This guy? akhilamar.com/wp-content/u... This guy is teaching the next generation of lawyers at Yale?
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December 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This guy? akhilamar.com/wp-content/u... This guy is teaching the next generation of lawyers at Yale?
I am not an attorney. I'm just a moderately-educated IT person. But, logic is a tool I use daily and I don't see how the conservative majority would justifies any narrowing of their expected opinion in the case. If Trump can do it to the FTC, EPA, FCC, etc., why wouldn't he be able to do it to all?
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I am not an attorney. I'm just a moderately-educated IT person. But, logic is a tool I use daily and I don't see how the conservative majority would justifies any narrowing of their expected opinion in the case. If Trump can do it to the FTC, EPA, FCC, etc., why wouldn't he be able to do it to all?
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
How does it feel about brooms?
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
How does it feel about brooms?
Yup! I hope this doesn’t sound mean/vain/arrogant, but…I find a lot of human-generated writing and speaking also merely mimics intelligent behavior.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Yup! I hope this doesn’t sound mean/vain/arrogant, but…I find a lot of human-generated writing and speaking also merely mimics intelligent behavior.
Does he think we forgot that he was fired from The New Yorker for sexual misconduct? Also: Lizza was fired with these charges Dec 11, 2017 and Nuzzi started dating him publicly in January 2018. That’s something.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Does he think we forgot that he was fired from The New Yorker for sexual misconduct? Also: Lizza was fired with these charges Dec 11, 2017 and Nuzzi started dating him publicly in January 2018. That’s something.
It’s gross enough that he feels the need to pile on at all, but to do it to his ex is petty and to do it to his ex who was decades younger than him is loathsome.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It’s gross enough that he feels the need to pile on at all, but to do it to his ex is petty and to do it to his ex who was decades younger than him is loathsome.
At the time I remember Steven Pinker and a handful of others defended him. Not a surprise then that Pinker helped in Epstein’s defense as well. www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07...
Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of the increasingly divisive public intellectual
Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
At the time I remember Steven Pinker and a handful of others defended him. Not a surprise then that Pinker helped in Epstein’s defense as well. www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07...
AI tools are surprisingly good at this so far. I'm sure NYT and others are finding all sorts of stuff. I'm trying to wrap my head around why the GOP would have dropped all of this out there. Do they think the fact that there are so many guilty parties that Trump will get a pass?
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
AI tools are surprisingly good at this so far. I'm sure NYT and others are finding all sorts of stuff. I'm trying to wrap my head around why the GOP would have dropped all of this out there. Do they think the fact that there are so many guilty parties that Trump will get a pass?
Wow. The size and scope of this network of creeps is extraordinary. I was searching for something else and found this exchange. He donates to their enterprise and they connect him to young women. This must have been Barbro Ehnbom. www.etc.se/inrikes/epst...
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Wow. The size and scope of this network of creeps is extraordinary. I was searching for something else and found this exchange. He donates to their enterprise and they connect him to young women. This must have been Barbro Ehnbom. www.etc.se/inrikes/epst...
Agree: most orgs *can* retrieve your emails if needed, but they are not reading them willy nilly without cause. I suppose this may change in the AI-addled near future, but for now it is done to suss out a legal or HR issue that was brought forward first. & also, don't email stuff you want hidden.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Agree: most orgs *can* retrieve your emails if needed, but they are not reading them willy nilly without cause. I suppose this may change in the AI-addled near future, but for now it is done to suss out a legal or HR issue that was brought forward first. & also, don't email stuff you want hidden.
Sad to say that I heard something very close to that about the deaths from COVID: they were sick already, overweight, didn't take care of themselves, were so old they were going to die anyway. I don't think the word rationalization even covers this kind of distorted, cruel thinking.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sad to say that I heard something very close to that about the deaths from COVID: they were sick already, overweight, didn't take care of themselves, were so old they were going to die anyway. I don't think the word rationalization even covers this kind of distorted, cruel thinking.