Double Album

Actually, Europe: you're stupid.

This is the dumbest thing of all time.

That said, this comes pretty close.

This is the part of the internet I really don't like. Sure, some guy killing a beloved lion isn't very nice, but this is the virtual equivalent of going to his place of business and burning it down.

In four years (give or take the usual delays), LaGuardia is going to become a real airport.

This sums up my feelings on DeflateGate.

Why is Donald Trump doing so well anyway?

Here is a data-driven, economics-influenced look at splitting the check.

Millennials aren't moving out, even though they have jobs.

Responses:

1. Can we just get that dog?

2. Or the dog in the first picture?

3. It's amazing how much you can talk yourself into believing things, although it makes sense given how much confidence is said to lead to success, whether you are asking for a raise or you are the entire banking industry (which is one big confidence game).

4. You have fun with those... I hate side planks (4 and 5).

5. "...it's good to aim high..." This is why I think the most important part of being married is being able to solve problems together. But I don't fault those who announce high hopes for being the greatest of all time in their wedding vows. In addition to setting the bar too low, how depressing of a wedding would it be if they announced during the vows how they would eventually come back after storming out of the house during an epic two-day fight and spending the night at a bar while chatting with some woman, only to remember that he's married before taking things too far, driving drunk back home, and apologizing before finishing the fight the next day? You always plan to go undefeated. That's why I thought it was funny and charming that Jamitto changed his vow to "for richer and for richer." All this said, I enjoyed the take because it does show the enduring love despite problems.

6. I'm going to download that when I get home.

R2R:

1. The women's team will be good for a while. I think what they really need is a more enduring presence in the form of a successful league. That will be more difficult.

2. Do you still think that the way the fellow passengers acted was unconscionable?

3. It goes to paying professors (whose salaries are quite generous if they are tenured), building lavish dorms, hiring administrative personnel for any number of niche concerns, and paying professors again. Ivy League-type schools have robust endowments that make them impervious to recessions and the like, but it's the private schools that aren't so great that don't have good endowments and thus rely on tuition payments far more heavily on an annual budget basis. But speaking of endowments, a few years ago there was a bit of a push to get schools like Harvard to spend a minimum percentage of their endowment every year, the concern being that Harvard was essentially living off the annual return plus tuition and hoarding cash while happily accepting government assistance in the form of government loans and grants to students.

R2R2R2R:

5. Hoarding acceptances is when, as someone at the top of your class with amazing grades, rather than do a careful search of which college would be a good fit for you, you instead apply to all of the Ivy League schools plus MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and maybe some of the elite liberal arts colleges (e.g. Williams, Wesleyan, etc.), and then just bask in the glow of university admissions officers begging you to come to their school via acceptance letters. You brag about it to your classmates, and you maybe even compete with some of them to get the most elite acceptances of all. It obviously makes sense to cast a wide-enough net, but it's clear that these students are deriving a fair amount of self-worth from the process, and this is what leads to that TJ student (or the Toronto student who took out a hit on her parents) when that acceptance (and those acceptances letters) is not received.

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