Quick search tells me an increase in school applications per student by about 50% since 2013.

@mcopelov.bsky.social how much of the admission rate decline would you ascribe to the increase in the Common Application usage?

My evergreen post:

If your policies result in kids getting killed, change your policies. It’s pretty simple.

Don’t think about it as the warmest year on record, think about it as the coolest year your children will ever experience.

At some point congressional inaction becomes treasonous negligence.

I think geographic proximity is an underused criterion for pardons.

Don’t think about it as the warmest year on record, think about it as the coolest year your children will ever experience.

Hey God: Aim 375 miles to the southeast….

Last scene of Cross season 2 episode 1 is the best depiction of male friendship. 8 words of dialogue.

Define “best”.

My evergreen post:

If your policies result in kids getting killed, change your policies. It’s pretty simple.

I’m extremely disappointed with the lack of music in the new season of “The Lincoln Lawyer”. The first couple of seasons had a notable and enjoyable soundtrack.

Trump continuing to stump for coal is a great example of how out of touch he is with energy and energy markets.

Or Shell could plan for a future that doesn’t involve using the atmosphere as a collective sewer.

We should be putting quotes around all government departments now as a matter of practice. Department of “Justice”. Department of “Energy”. Department of “Homeland Security”.

Or to quote my favorite movie. “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Honest question: Is Trump capable of endorsing a candidate?

The Stone Age didn’t end when we ran out of stones. The fossil fuel age…

$2B in vendor financing adds the growing feeling that the business model is on shaky ground.

This.

I will restate a previous post: if your policy is harming children, you need a new policy. It is pretty simple.

Mean reversion will happen.

Tulips do look nice in the spring.

I’ve heard it described that glass (all kinds) doesn’t age, doesn’t rust but does “collect insults”. Microscopic cracks until it eventually gives up. The safety aspect of tempered glass is that it didn’t break into giant shards that kill. So there is that.

Come for the basketball and stay for the…um..dad jokes?

It’s great marketing to create a buzz for the next deal.

White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 a...

Leadership in science and research has been a fundamental cornerstone of long term economic growth. The damage this administration is inflicting on research institutions will take a generation to recover.

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But do you need a cookie? No really, do you want all the cookies or just some of them or none of them?

Yes, but too close at the end. Shouldn’t be with even half the turnovers.

New stat resquest: record with half the turnovers?

My son asked me if I knew Schrödinger’s first name. I told him it was either Edwin or Erwin, but there was no way to be certain.

I thought of use of lighting was fantastic in the church scenes.

Now show it by quintile of income.

That’s “some pig”.