Privileged impotence, which makes it even sadder.

The article states that this all occurred within a group that the university is responsible for, and the behavior is explicitly covered in the code of conduct. The metaphor I guess would be getting fired for posting crappy things from your office computer. Or an elementary teacher fired for posting a picture of…

This is probably not an option, but at this point, I'd rather have a both-the-same-er than a Republican.

First rule of geology is that older layers are always below younger layers, unless you can give a pretty damn good reason why they wouldn't be.

I don't like Jason Statham. Couldn't say exactly why, but it somehow seems fitting that he played a villain in a Fast & Furious movie.

All they can really do is yell at you and maybe fine you, assuming they catch you. And it's not like they search cars when you're leaving, especially at a park as busy as GCNP. But after a stunt like this, they might have his picture hung up in the park offices.

If it were caused by a single gush of water (from any source), wouldn't all the layers of similar hardness have been eroded at the same rate? We'd see cliff walls that looked like:

You have to submit a legitimate scientific proposal in order to complete the permitting process. And the park's requirement of peer review for the proposal is part of the process. A guy who is widely recognized as a complete fool is probably not going to think peer review is very fair.

According to some of the geology professors at Texas A&M University that I happen to know personally, there are a few students every semester who feel it is their duty to inform the professor in advance that they (the students) don't believe in plate tectonics or evolution or old-Earth or any of those things, but they…

The article does mention that one of the more cumbersome requirements is "submitting his proposal to peer reviews", which I assume a guy with no peers would have a problem with. The park's policy is probably designed to allow extraction only for scientific purposes, and they want to make sure that your scientific…

Symbolic commitments now can theoretically be leveraged into tangible commitments later.

On the plus side, we are overdue for an Ice Age.

The Invisible Hand is too busy grabbing pussy.

Energy companies will occasionally engage in low-risk activities that make them seem like they are environmentally responsible, just to score cheap PR points. In Trump's America, you don't have to bother scoring PR points anymore.

Almost anyone except who we currently have for POTUS!

Black's isn't hugely better than Rudy's, but it is definitely better. I'll wait in lines of certain length. Strangely, the line at the Barton Springs location is usually shorter than the Guadalupe location, and both are shorter than the Lockhart location.

"Calling Leslie Jones names is part of our cultural heritage!"

Of course it's male genocide! Do you honestly think we would trust women to lead our genocides?

It doesn't say next to the skull, you know "Yeah, we killed him, but trust us, this guy was horrid."

I've got 99 problems and sleep is at least 50% of them.