it looked like an effort to bypass midfield & press and play over the top, but rarely actually did so

Been called 4 times!

One movie I am glad that nearly every MA student watches in school.

Being a Massachusetts Sumner definitely elevates it a bit for me.

Enjoying the Say Nothing tv series about the IRA.

we have a spa/baths nearby that is apparently warmed via bitcoin mining or something similar. So there's precedent

Boy, do we need more of this in Economics.

(The comments are still filled with garbage, but I think this is pretty close to the gold standard for explaining what we know, don't know, and can't ever know in the context of complicated scientific material.)

It's a bit of an odd source/version of this, but I thought this (Practical Engineering on Texas Floods) was a great way of presenting "shortcomings" without yielding room to the monsters:

youtu.be/3FfMzWa6LKg?...

I remember encountering a dataset that (at least in-part) determined how corrupt a country was, based on how many gov't officials were prosecuted on corruption charges.

WSJ reported the "transgender ideology" then retracted.

Guardian reported he was leftist according to a high school friend and then retracted.

If that was what GOP wanted, why wouldn't they just force the shutdown themselves?

Now that they see what this actually looks like, (not just deporting dangerous criminals) they have cooled on the idea.

Polls initially shower support for these policies because the average American is completely ignorant of who undocumented immigrants are, they were painted a picture by Trump of murderers and rapists with almost zero push back from the cowards who lead the democratic party, and they believed it.