“Why are we charging students tens of thousands of dollars for degrees that don’t even qualify them for a position at Buc-ee’s brisket counter?”
https://t.co/OQ3rsGyt2g
“Why are we charging students tens of thousands of dollars for degrees that don’t even qualify them for a position at Buc-ee’s brisket counter?”
https://t.co/OQ3rsGz0RO
“In 1903, the biggest industry in the world was whaling. It disappeared almost overnight.”
Jimmy Carr dropped this on the Joe Rogan podcast and it made me rethink how fast entire economies can vanish.
Whaling collapsed in about 18 months once petrochemicals replaced whale oil. The same thing happened with horse manure in New York City — the streets were literally covered in it, brownstones had steps to stay above the filth, and laws couldn’t fix it. Then Henry Ford’s cars arrived, and within a few years the horses (and the problem) were basically gone.
Carr’s point: the resources and industries we treat as permanent today can disappear shockingly fast when something better comes along.
What “essential” industry or resource of today do you think could vanish in the next 20 years?
/archive/2025/12/the-tune-of-things-christian-wiman-consciousness-god via @Harpers /archive/2025/12/the-tune-of-things-christian-wiman-consciousness-god
My friends and I have been out all day protesting against this ceasefire.
We demand a ceasefire that wasn’t arranged by Donald Trump.
We will never give up the struggle for peace. ✊
A few people may have noticed that I resisted an enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump during the election.
But now, I’m amazed by the Trump cabinet (many of whom I would have picked).
I love his message to the Ukrainian warmongers, and along with his DOGE initiative shows I was wrong to withhold my endorsement.
So today, admittedly a little tardy, I give Donald Trump my enthusiastic endorsement!
(Too little too late some will say, but, you know, it is sincere, there is that.)
Don’t expect this endorsement to be fawning.
I still think tariffs are a terrible idea, but Dios Mio, what courage, what tenacity.
Go @realDonaldTrump Go!
10 Facts About Ukraine/NATO:
1. Russia is absolutely in the wrong for invading Ukraine. Nothing Ukraine did excuses or justifies Russia’s actions.
2. Ukraine is not going to be able to win the war, if the definition of the winning the war is recovering all the conquered Ukrainian territory. A continued stalemate will result in many thousands of additional deaths.
3. There is much more going on in this conflict than in the portrait painted by the media and establishment. It involves history, ethnicity, and other factors we westerners – including me, who’s actually trained Ukrainian soldiers several times on Ukrainian soil – do not and cannot understand.
4. Ukraine is an unbelievably corrupt country and the idea that no substantial portion of our aid money has been stolen is ridiculous.
5. The American people are by and large tired of subsidizing Ukraine’s end of this war. They are absolutely against American forces being involved.
6. China is a substantially greater threat to the United States than Russia in the macro. However, this war unacceptably raises the potential for US-Russian conflict. Do not imagine that this cannot spin completely out of control.
7. The Europeans should be taking the lead in supporting Ukraine and should be taking the lead in defending Europe.
8. The campaign to insult critics of past Ukraine policy by calling them Putin‘s puppets, etc, is a lie and is going to result in enmity towards the idea of helping the Ukrainians. You cannot insult Americans into obedience. You cannot fail to address their legitimate concerns and expect them to agree with you.
9. Some of our NATO allies are participating in internal repression, including suppression of free speech and the right to organize and participate in elections via non-establishment parties. This dangerously undercuts the moral argument in favor of NATO.
10. It is in America’s interest at this war ends. It is in our interest to draw Russia away from China and closer to the West. It is not in our interest to have a war going on where our proxy is fighting with a nuclear-armed enemy, regardless of how moral the cause of Ukraine is. The only way this is going to happen is if the United States takes the lead and forces Ukraine to make painful concessions in order to end this dangerous bloodbath. Ukraine is not worth a nuclear confrontation with Russia.