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Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, sc. 2
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We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
Read more about his legacy: buff.ly/e3c3WdL
ALT In loving memory of Richard Posner 1939-2026
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Comme chaque année pour le #11novembre, je remets cette excellente animation du front de l’ouest pendant la Première Guerre mondiale par carto1418.fr/ :
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One of the most shocking things from this WSJ video on the California high-speed rail is the decision to move the stations *four to five miles* from city center to cut costs. Dropping you off downtown is the biggest perk of the train! youtube.com/watch?v=zPiJKJuQ…
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I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
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"The case for markets isn’t that they are always right. They aren’t. Instead, the case for markets is that they are more likely to be right than are politicians and bureaucrats." cafehayek.com/2026/11/market…
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Starting tonight at 1 AM, we’ll be sharing the real radio transmissions from the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior, 50 years ago.
These posts will follow the timeline as it happened, from the first reports of rough seas to the ship’s final transmission.
We share them in remembrance of the 29 men who were lost, and in respect for all who work the Great Lakes.
Transmissions from: ssedmundfitzgerald.org/fitz-…
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I must have missed all the Dem candidates who won by railing against Amazon for having too-low prices
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Steven Miller's immigration policy has taken arguably the GOP's best issue and made it a liability. He, second only to Trump himself, is responsible for blowing up the multiracial coalition that elected Trump in 2024 and sparked the GOP's dream of a multiracial working class coalition. He's also probably the single most despised person in American politics. So of course, Trump appointed him Chief of Staff after getting humiliated at the polls. It's so perfect.
I'm seeing so many resignations in the wake of the GOP midterm meltdown. Surely Stephen Miller must be soon to follow, right?
Oh.
Breaking News: Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s mass deportation effort, will become White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles, President Trump said. nyti.ms/4AieWy5
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Apropos of nothing:
[HAMILTON]
No one knows who you are or what you do
[BURR]
They don't need to know me, they don't like you
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Does the @nytimes know that Tolkien fought at the Batttle of the Somme in WWI where the British took 57,000 casualties in the first 24 hours?
At the end of the offensive over 1 million men were killed, wounded, or missing.
Seems like this article is inaccurate 🧐
In a wild news week, the FAA comes out of left field to win the prize for craziest headline
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 reut.rs/4zsSsu2
This is such an amazing headline. Truly.
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 reut.rs/4zsSsu2
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Your periodic reminder that the sticker was invented in 1935 but the US Postal Service didn’t make self-adhesive stamps available nationwide until 1992.
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 reut.rs/4zsSsu2
I had forgotten about Rukeyser! Good advice.
Also BTFD
Still my go-to after days like yesterday: Louis Rukeyser on Wall Street Week after the crash of 1987. youtube.com/watch?v=06Q34W-E…
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Welcome to the Republican Resistance. If you think tariffs are bad policy, you oppose Russia in its war against Ukraine, you don’t want to repeal Birthright Citizenship, you don’t think people should profit off of elected office, you think a diverse pluralistic society is a good thing, & you support treating human beings with dignity — welcome!
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Republicans are blaming the Iran war and rising prices for this week's electoral shellacking. Fair enough. But the economic damage didn't begin with the war. It began with indiscriminate tariffs that amounted to a tax increase on American consumers.
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When I read my first Tom Clancy novel I thought what most dated it, tied it to the ’90s, was its confidence—the belief in experts, the trust in institutions, the faith in technology. I wrote a whole essay about it, I found it so striking.
These days, I think what most dates Clancy is how many of his characters are empowered with real responsibility in their early thirties.
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Every anti-Paxton Republican I talked to was sick of exactly this kind of crap. They want the party to grow up, stop acting like Biff from Back to the Future, and actually try competence and integrity for a change.
