For my cohort of PhD students it was the one dick Master’s student who brought up Foucault in every damn discussion. He’d be watching ESPN on his tablet, totally zoned out of the discussion then drop this theory nonsense in no matter what the topic was. We all knew he was recycling papers from class to class too - he…

We do a lousy job of building resilience in the people who test well early. That was me, even through college and law school - when shit got too hard outside of the areas I loved, I could just retreat to the stuff that was easy (and frankly if I played the game a little better in law school I could have been at the…

Yep. One reason I kind of regret going to the most elite institution I could for undergrad is it totally fed my insecurities. Plus it was a huge school, so I could retreat and just do what I was comfortable with instead of being made to socialize/build resilience. Now I go to conferences with people who did the…

The only slightly good news is she lived because the asshole who freaked out was the only one and the other two officers didn’t join in. The swing in favor of law enforcement has gotten out of hand - this was a 7-2 decision issued per curiam without even full briefing (basically a smack down of the 9th Circuit for…

Generally they can’t be used to stop you from reporting to law enforcement, but a) most people don’t know that, b) they are written so expansively they are used to terrify people into compliance and c) the law enforcement provisions are generally limited to criminal activities, which generally don’t include things…

Pedialyte is your friend compared to Gatorade in this situation.

Orange County has been a hotbed of white resentment basically forever. As in George Wallace ran his campaign for President out of Orange County back in 1968. But it isn’t necessarily the worst part of California for racial issues or resentment of state and Federal government - there are some parts of Northern…

The thing is, for Southern Indiana Columbus is actually a) pretty nice and b) pretty enlightened. Yes, it is an extremely low bar, but they pay for shit like nice architecture and public art from heavy hitters, and aren’t overtly intolerant they way you might expect given Pence’s own tendencies. It isn’t a liberal…

We basically already have this between Medicaid mal-distribution and the subsidies of the defense industry in the “new South”.

Please just stop making this about the money and thinking that this starting salary information is reflective of anything other than a warped labor market within a warped system. Engineer salaries are higher right out of college because there are far fewer people who enjoy engineering enough to go into it as a field.…

Liberal arts colleges are frequently less expensive than state schools because of the difference in financial aid. Additionally, although I reject the premise that college is first and foremost about getting jobs, attending a smaller school that can afford individual students a richer experience, a more robust…

“School is exclusively about improving a student’s earning potential and their desirability in the job market after graduation.”

The reason the data collection is slanted, in my estimation, is to be able to justify future versions of the Texas regulations. Basically taking the view that if there are any demonstrable risks they should be allowed to regulate it - which isn’t exactly what Kennedy said, but close enough for a zealot to get behind…

I’m guessing it is so they can claim even more draconian measures (along the lines of what Texas tried to pass) are justified based on the health of the mother. Kennedy’s opinion in Whole Woman’s Health suggests that if there had been more data of this kind the law might have passed constitutional muster. Of course,…

They really are fascinating - De Waal used them a lot in Peacemaking Among Primates, which was definitely formative for me (along with Dawkin’s the Selfish Gene) about human and animal behavior.

The thing is the census is already an antiquated, expensive piece of crap that tends to undercount a lot of the same communities the citizenship question is apt to intimidate. Advanced modeling and sampling would be cheaper, more accurate and more efficient. But because the sometime literalists on the right wing of…

I think it is a traveling display like the AIDS Memorial Quilt. But yeah, weird phrasing including being “pleased” about it.

It varies by state. Oregon doesn’t do it because everyone votes by mail, but California does - and lets you apply to permanently vote absentee in every election.

How about the facts the NRA is a) funded by gun manufacturers and b) lobbies to make all meaningful restrictions on weapons use toothless, up to and including shielding manufacturers from liability even as they aggressively sell weapons as the solution to the perceived dangers and harms of society. Just like Big…

Nope, you lose me at the idea of provoking a full blown constitutional crises over this. 200 years of judicial review, and the fact that it was understood as being inherent in judicial power by Hamilton and most observers, is why we honor the Court. Jackson’s conduct was egregious and even he didn’t go as far as you…