A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow
Went to City of Asylum for dinner and Black Poets night. Interesting and fun. One poet was quite likable.
Leave for Williamsburg today. Chris gets back tomorrow.
Marie Curie, her husband, their daughter, and son-in-law were all Nobel Prize winners. Imagine dinner.
If Capitalism has got to be brought to heel to solve Global Warming, why is the largest--and most expanding--carbon producer Communist China?
Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor sex crime for allegedly groping a woman’s breast at a New York City rooftop bar, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said. (wsj)
All the politicians are proposing eliminating student debt. (Too late for me.) But there is over 550 billion dollars in college endowments--and they are responsible for this mess, right? So why don't we just take it and give it to the students?
U.S. prosecutors accused Abraaj Group founder Arif Naqvi of misappropriating more than $250 million in a widening investigation into the world’s biggest failed private-equity firm. $250 million!
For paper bags to have the same environmental “footprint” as plastic bags, they need to be used 3 times. For cloth bags to have the same footprint, they need to be used 131 times. How likely is that?
Conservatives and liberals will never admit it, but when they claimed that a loss for their preferred presidential candidate in 2016 would mark the beginning of rapid American decline, they were thoroughly insulting the country they claim to love. If one person can wreck a country, it’s arguably not worth saving in the first place.--Will
In 2018, the California legislature passed a law requiring that organizations feeding homeless people must use licensed state-approved kitchens. Deliverance San Diego, which had delivered about 110 hot meals to homeless San Diegans every day it operated, announced that it shut down because of those regulations. If you want to discourage something and can't freeze its price, regulate it.
This is discouraging:
On this day in 1940 the German Army invaded Paris.
Non-nonrenewable
A recent bill in California to allow two utilities, in the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts, to be able to categorize as renewable energy electricity that turbines at the Don Pedro Reservoir generated. It failed, and the story is telling.
The effort was in response to the questionable decision of the state to demand that utilities produce 60% of their power from renewable sources by 2030. No one argued that hydroelectric energy is not renewable energy. They argued this, from the Bay Area News Group:
"The bill drew stiff opposition from environmental and health groups, from the Sierra Club to the American Lung Association. They argued that if Don Pedro’s electricity was counted as renewable, then the owners of dozens of other large dams would want the same treatment. That would mean that demand for solar and wind power could falter."
These special interest groups have decided that the way to meet the renewable energy goal is to have more solar and wind power even if hydroelectric power is cheaper. They don’t really want renewable energy. They want solar and wind power. Period.
Went to City of Asylum for dinner and Black Poets night. Interesting and fun. One poet was quite likable.
Leave for Williamsburg today. Chris gets back tomorrow.
Marie Curie, her husband, their daughter, and son-in-law were all Nobel Prize winners. Imagine dinner.
If Capitalism has got to be brought to heel to solve Global Warming, why is the largest--and most expanding--carbon producer Communist China?
Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor sex crime for allegedly groping a woman’s breast at a New York City rooftop bar, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said. (wsj)
All the politicians are proposing eliminating student debt. (Too late for me.) But there is over 550 billion dollars in college endowments--and they are responsible for this mess, right? So why don't we just take it and give it to the students?
U.S. prosecutors accused Abraaj Group founder Arif Naqvi of misappropriating more than $250 million in a widening investigation into the world’s biggest failed private-equity firm. $250 million!
For paper bags to have the same environmental “footprint” as plastic bags, they need to be used 3 times. For cloth bags to have the same footprint, they need to be used 131 times. How likely is that?
Conservatives and liberals will never admit it, but when they claimed that a loss for their preferred presidential candidate in 2016 would mark the beginning of rapid American decline, they were thoroughly insulting the country they claim to love. If one person can wreck a country, it’s arguably not worth saving in the first place.--Will
In 2018, the California legislature passed a law requiring that organizations feeding homeless people must use licensed state-approved kitchens. Deliverance San Diego, which had delivered about 110 hot meals to homeless San Diegans every day it operated, announced that it shut down because of those regulations. If you want to discourage something and can't freeze its price, regulate it.
This is discouraging:
On this day in 1940 the German Army invaded Paris.
Non-nonrenewable
A recent bill in California to allow two utilities, in the Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts, to be able to categorize as renewable energy electricity that turbines at the Don Pedro Reservoir generated. It failed, and the story is telling.
The effort was in response to the questionable decision of the state to demand that utilities produce 60% of their power from renewable sources by 2030. No one argued that hydroelectric energy is not renewable energy. They argued this, from the Bay Area News Group:
"The bill drew stiff opposition from environmental and health groups, from the Sierra Club to the American Lung Association. They argued that if Don Pedro’s electricity was counted as renewable, then the owners of dozens of other large dams would want the same treatment. That would mean that demand for solar and wind power could falter."
These special interest groups have decided that the way to meet the renewable energy goal is to have more solar and wind power even if hydroelectric power is cheaper. They don’t really want renewable energy. They want solar and wind power. Period.
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