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It's not only TSA personnel (who are, on the whole, so incompetent I wouldn't hire most of the ones I meet to do ANYTHING), it's policy itself. Security policy in much of the world…

Your point may stand in the event of negative interest rates, but generally, it seems like you're assuming that what Americans are doing is finding investing avenues that offer gre…

Exactly. This is an extreme - and ever more prevalent - illustration of why I don't use air dryers in public restrooms. It also bothers when they says it's done to help the environ…

"What is needed, in some ways, is a return to this more flexible, broader way of thinking." Well, if the courts and the White House (as inhabited by Democrats AND Republicans) woul…

"out that of America’s 350 major metro areas, the cities with more than three million people have rebounded far better from the financial crisis." I assume the writer means metro a…

Assuming this is a positive development, I wonder where else xHamster is also blocking access - what about large parts of the Middle East and Africa?

As far as I see, he only really taught some fluff courses on "rights, race and gender." [1] Not quite what comes to the minds of most lawyers and law students when someone says "co…

While he was somewhat of an originalist, Scalia was foremost a textualist - much more than an originalist (the latter term better describes Thomas).

I'm surprised this is news. If only because of the massive anti-(cigarette)-smoking campaign of the past several years, combined with the massive pro-marijuana-legalization campaig…

Exactly. While this may be true for some - as you said "not having enough money is a good reason not to be happy." Status alone isn't the question - it's what "enough money" means.…

And much does. Does that also not constitute sex work in your eyes?

I generally agree, but Monday didn't have to be a complete non-event. If the market has just gone down sharply, that looks like a buying opportunity to me - even if it continues to…

> "If these kids didn't listen (weren't forced by the State to listen) to older men telling them horror stories about the 'enemy', they would just hang out, drink and party togethe…

> " We conclude that parents and offspring tend to resemble each other for genetic reasons, and not due to cultural transmission." Interesting, but not earth-shattering. Reminded m…

> "Traditionally, law schools would teach classes to prepare students for taking the bar exams" Really? When and where? In fact, the opposite is true. Traditionally, law school cla…

1. In case I wasn't clear, I meant being on-call nearly all the time - not that I have actual work all the time. You generally get a fair amount of weekends off, but it makes plann…

Exactly. But it was only when I entered the workforce full-time that I truly appreciated Shabbat. Especially in a world when I am expected to be on-call 24 hours a day, I honestly …

Interesting. Very different from Israel, which is in a part of the world that has long suffered from chronic droughts - the culture is very much that water needs to be preserved an…

> People attempting to lose weight should not be swayed by the "popular theory about how low-carb diets offer a specific metabolic advantage for body fat loss," says Hall. "Our stu…