The Frankish Reich

Everyone wants "ideas." Most "ideas" are bad ideas. Look at what this election season has give us so far: - huge tariff increases (Trump) - no taxes on tips (Trump, now Harris) - a "strategic" Bitcoin reserve (Trump) - some kind of price controls (Harris) My takeaway: We need fewer "ideas," not more.

That's true. I looked back to when she would've first taken (and failed) the bar exam. It had a 59.5% passage rate. That's really apples and oranges. I've said before that I recognize and accept the idea of different kinds of "intelligence." But when we're talking about something like standardized or professional exam-taking intelligence, it's a measure of general intelligence (the educational psychologist's "g," which is something like IQ, involving reasoning skills) plus hard work/study over a prolonged period (more applicable in something like the bar exam, which tests both g and accumulated knowledge of a field). Now Trump is fond of calling people "low IQ." He's not talking about some social skill here in reading people and making deals. That's a real thing, but a different thing. So if he's serious about putting up or shutting up, we'd need to see some old g-type test, like his SAT scores, which we could compare to Kamala's SAT/LSAT scores. I say bring it on.

Read the article. It explains what google's search algorithm did, and why it was designed to not encourage information about hypothetical assassination attempts. In this case, it didn't distinguish between the actual and hypothetical. A design flaw, in other words. One that would have done the same thing if Biden had been the victim. Get over your persecution complex.

I'm sorry, I thought the article was about putting Public Defenders on the bench.

Of course it isn't. But the billions of individual decisions that go into whether the market is up or down are reflecting a general optimism about economic conditions. One that is odds with "recession is upon us."

It's almost as if Google is ranking search results according to what is most relevant at the moment.

A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage isn't a policy proposal. You gotta explain exactly how you'll make that happen.

Ahh, back to the days of this.

Doomed! The higher it goes, the harder it falls!

Inside job to do ... what? Delay the certification of the votes? You mean, doing Trump's bidding? And Trump was President at the time. Who would have an incentive to call-in a bomb threat? THE GUY WHO WANTS TO DELAY THE COUNTING OF THE VOTES. This is so stupid. Even for Julie Kelly it's stupid.

Relatable!

Certainly has a Four Seasons Landscaping feel, doesn't it?

Answer: there isn't any. Harris campaign and Harris supporting PACs paid for those sponsored links. Did I like Google better before the proliferation of sponsored links? Yes. Is this the new world of search? Yes.

I keep responding here just because I feel sorry for Tarheel, having to carry on a conversation with himself all day long. Because NO ONE CARES about this.

Well it certainly resulted in Tucker Carlson pulling his "I'm confused, this is disturbing" face, you know, his resting b!tch face

Proof that campaigns and affiliated PACs raise more money than they know what to do with, planting silly altered headline sponsored links on Google.

Grassy knoll!

Whatever you think about whether encouraging people to have more children, this type of pro-natalist policy doesn't have an encouraging history in the countries that have tried it.

In which "struggling in the polls" means leading in the polls by anywhere from 1 percentage point to 5 percentage points.

Well if The Old Lady In the Hat says so ...

McFaul is right. Trump badgered Biden about his "basement strategy" while he was out there getting COVID and almost dying for you. Biden's strategy worked. It's like people telling the Chiefs "stop letting Mahomes throw the ball all the time, and try to win like old fashioned teams with 3 yards and a cloud of dust."

Right. Could be the Lo-Fi Internet of 2003 Twitter platform. Could be Trump not willing to use a professional mic. Could be Trump being tired, particularly after the long delay. Or a combination.

It's really easy to say "I had a plan, and I told the Taliban that I would personally kill them if they messed with it, so it would have worked just as I drew it up" but then never actually executed the plan. That's all.

Just poked around the live feed of Asheville. I don't hear any slurring today. Still doing the Greatest Hits.

We saw a lot of tough talk and saber rattling from Trump. Not a whole lot of action. Why not bring them home from Afghanistan if that’s what you wanted? Or N Korea: little rocket man completely undeterred, regardless of who is in the White House.