Worth posting again. The Coastal Commission is bad enough when it's doing its official job blocking new construction, but now it's decided its in the censorship business.
Virginia Postrel
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Virginia Postrel
@vpostrel
L.A. writer @WorksinProgMag @AbundanceInst Ihttp://vpostrel.substack.com Everyday Abundance podcast w/ @CharlesCMann coming in June!
- Replying to @NyereNevarez and @nypostThe SAT is the only way people from crap schools with limited curricula and counseling have to prove they’re as promising as the educationally privileged. Anyone can read old books and build vocab. Not everyone can take a zillion AP classes. Changed my life.
- Holy moly! I thought the Jones Act was bad.It looks like a whole new shipping preference law is coming. The House overwhelmingly passed the American Cargo for American Ships Act that would require 100% of transportation project materials to go on US ships, driving up infrastructure costs. govtrack.us/congress/bills…
- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Trump is venal but Vance is evil.
- This @jonathanchait piece seems like sound political analysis but what struck me was how left-wing foundations get a free pass in exercising political influence on journalism and academia. Imagine the word "Koch" instead of "Hewlett." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
- I went to one of those lousy, obscure public high schools nobody's heard of & got very high SAT scores. That's why I wound up @Princeton, which fed my intellectual hunger & changed my life. It was long ago but kids like me haven't disappeared & not all are 1st generation.Love this @nytimes article. Poor students are better off when elite unis require the SAT because (unlike grades and essays), it closely predicts student achievement. It’s mediocre rich kids, not smart disadvantaged ones who stand to gain from the recent anti-SAT trend.
- Just think how high Nikki Haley would be polling against Biden now.
- I'm so old I remember when Krugman was an honest economist. Harris is talking about SUPERMARKETS!!! Not examples where there was a deliberate reduction in production.Harris’s gouging proposal looks mild compared with the price-control hysteria. But some are writing as if gouging never happens. Has everyone forgotten about the California electricity crisis of 2001, in which power operators deliberately cut production to raise prices?
- One good thing about Trump's "l'état c'est moi" military parade: It inspired historian T.H. Breen to recall this charming moment in early American history.
- Replying to @lxeagle17Fun for the arsonists. Nothing to do with immigration, other than feeding Trump’s agenda.
- If JD Vance had been around in late 1700s Britain he’d have been opposed to spinning machine and, a generation later, to power looms. Aka the Industrial Revolution, which threw a lot of people out of work even as it created new jobs and unprecedented increases in living standardsBefore opposing new tech, Luddites thrived thanks to previous innovations. A reminder of tech’s complex impact on labor from @vpostrel
00:00 - Replying to @elonmuskFortunately they have a high-traffic website and an editor who cares about national security.
- The good thing about the bond market is that it's an emergent order whose speech, in the form of interest rates, can't be mau-maued by a vindictive POTUS.
