Catholic, New Jerseyan, pre-Trump conservative, Mets fan. Still anti-Trump. Candide-ing my way through the 2020s.
Middlesex County, NJ
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Welp …
Rutgers is doing the financially prudent thing by keeping Greg Schiano. It's doing the best thing for Rutgers.
But is Rutgers what's best for the Big Ten?
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New from me: "The Time to Take Back Congressional Power Is Now"
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Shocked face
Sean Hannity announced on his Fox News program that he has left the Catholic Church. beliefnet.com/columnists/ido…
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a certain kind of environmentalist will tell you we have ten years to decarbonize and then defend a review process that uses seven of them. the planet is on fire, please submit written comments before the close of the 90 day window
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This is a symptom of a broader problem with our system of representation in the modern day: everyone wants to be consulted on every single decision, akin to a direct democracy. But that's now how our system works or is meant to work.
I'm a Burkean at heart when it comes to electoral politics. You're not electing an agent - someone who does exactly what you say whenever you decide to say it. You're electing a representative - someone you are tasking with using his own judgment & knowledge to take on issues of importance to society & the nation.
Agents do whatever you think is best in the moment, even if that's not a good thing for you or society in the long run. Representatives are supposed to be insulated to a degree from the whims of the voting public, so as to make the best decisions possible, even if painful in the immediate term.
We must return to that Burkean concept of representation & discard this bullshit social-media-driven shift to an agent model, focused on the whims of the loudest idiots in the country. Anything less spells serious long-term harm to our nation.
Lost them and should never try to get them back. Podcast bros are entertainers, not serious policy people. Worse, they have zero accountability to the truth. No fact checks. No sourcing. No foundational education on the complex matters they discuss on their shows.
They aren’t the problem, however.
The problem is that too many people use entertainers as their news source. Viewers incentivize increasingly crazy podcast topics.
But policy discussions aren’t supposed to be entertaining. They’re supposed to be nuanced, informative, and frankly, boring.
When the public starts to incentivize boring intellectual policy discussions instead of click-bait entertainment, our national politics will finally be less like a political version of the Jerry Springer Show, and more like the serious political debates expected of an advanced civilization.
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Voters: We just want normal
Biden: I’m the next FDR
Voters: how about a normal economy
Trump: I’ll throw the system of global trade into chaos and annex Greenland
Voters: Normal. All we ask
Democrats: Show trials for billionaires and massive new entitlements
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There used to be so much depth and nuance to college football that I always felt made it a far superior product to the NFL.
Regional teams that had been playing each other for 100+ years, those games having direct effects on recruiting battles, seeing how those recruits developed over 4 years, how when the stars aligned with a special group of recruits it led to all time great seasons for lower level programs that helped elevate their status in the CFB ecosystem.
Everything intertwined to make this deeply rich and interesting sport with nothing else like it.
Now we have a ship of Theseus version of college football that looks more like just a shittier version of the NFL than the sport we watched growing up, and why would anyone watch that when the NFL is available.
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You cannot change the social contract to guaranteed automated enforcement overnight, there has to be a grace period for people to adjust to the new regime
And you had better raise the posted speed limits while you're at it, everyone knows the "real" limit is higher than posted
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I find it unsettling and upsetting that there is a smart person on tv asking interesting questions. I have become accustomed to partisan talking point bots where they say dumb things I’ve heard a million times and then when you answer wrong they do The Jon Stewart Face.
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ROSS DOUTHAT: In a previous lifetime.
DONALD TRUMP: Yes.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Do you feel you'd failed anyone, perhaps your ex-
DONALD TRUMP: Kevin McAllister.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Right, let's talk about Kevin.
DONALD TRUMP: I pointed him to the lobby.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Right, but Kevin had a rough time after that.
DONALD TRUMP: Not in my hotel, his only issues in the hotel were a stomach ache from too much room service. But out there, in Dinkins's New York, it was a killing field.
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The "we don't make things anymore" crowd starts with the premise that the things the US is really good at doing – software, oil and gas, finance, venture capital, higher ed, logistics, retail, pharma, media, defense, food, tourism, aerospace – don't count.
It's unfalsifiable.
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Also! Why must every interview be hostile, even if the journalist disagrees with the person they’re interviewing? Politeness goes a long way, as Douthat showed.
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Yeah, well, doggedly insisting on running for a second term until it became a tedious punchline should follow Biden to his.
Joe Biden: Jan. 6 riots should follow Trump ‘to his grave’
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It all sucks and everyone involved should feel bad
I could be wrong! But man, the 24-team CFP *feels* like a step towards college football 'enshittification' that will be hard to walk back.
Almost nobody *really* wants it. Benefits don't pass to consumers. Eventually, schools won't even really enjoy them. And for what?
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