That’ll be a useful solution in several years, not tomorrow.

Trains? What are these “trains” of which you speak? Admittedly, the Northeast Corridor has something aspiring to be high-speed rail, but the line only runs up the U.S. coast. I was taking ICEs in the '90s across countries in Europe. We simply don’t have that here.

“Extraordinary” is a wild claim here. When you’re elected with an actual mandate, it stands as obvious that previous regime damage is a high priority for being undone.

I think Trump himself could largely cover the gas shortage if he were able to take his diaper off.

There’s a great moment in Star Trek VI … Chang says “we need breathing room,” and Kirk responds with “Earth, Hitler, 1938.”

Just tie it to private-sector retirement age and call it good.

Now, if we could just get those for Congress …

Over the years, I’ve come to determine that the main difference between Catholicism and evangelical movements is the former focuses on the New Testament, whereas the latter focuses on the Torah with a little Jesus sprinkled on top.

I’m going to guess the pope has read the bible a few times. I’m an atheist, so I have no horse in this race, but I don’t see his entreaty here as being counter to Jesus’ teachings.

“Oops! All Epsteins!” Going to war to solve domestic charges should, itself, be a war crime.

Why do you think I offered to oversee a news community? I get that I have specialised training, but I choose to use it for good.

Depends on the dipping sauces. They’re going to be fattier than brisket.

Because I was a news editor for decades and can separate good reporting from an overall shitty outlet.

Politico still does some decent journalism, as do WaPo and NYT. The thing is, you have to have a bullshit detector on hand as a reader, and we stopped teaching media literacy decades ago.

At least Russia knows how to keep interference under the radar. This is abject.

I would totally attend that lunch.

We have a fairly complete understanding on the history and utility of books, dating to well before Gutenberg.

What we don’t have is a rigourous longitudinal study on the effects of using screens for learning. That history is somewhat interesting, because we were writing 58008 on pocket calculators well ahead of the screen getting far bigger and going into colour.

When I got my TI-85 in high school, I spent more time in class with it programming TI-BASIC to solve my homework on its own than using it as directed. Like, coding the quadratic formula such that it wouldn’t spit out the two results (this is not going to be useful for learning) but rather provide a, b and c hanging out in the equation so that I could then more easily figure out the solution.

But using tablets and computers for younger and younger students alarms me. When I was learning about technology, you could tinker and hack, which made it a fantastic tool for learning new skills. These walled gardens are pure consumption machines designed to make the underpinning so opaque that students learn nothing about the technology inside.

Since I’m in my 40s, I can absolutely believe it. Failing upward is a core tenet of capitalism in its current form.

For Trump, the unexpected item has been the resilience of the regime in Iran.

“Unexpected item in bombing area”

Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own decisions …

Who could have guessed bombing another country would have knock-on effects?