RIP, Danny Kahneman
How about a psychologist (who never took an economics class) who wins the Nobel Prize in economics? What a fascinating and brilliant man. I sure wish I had had the chance to talk with him or meet him.
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90 (msn.com)
One of the most important books I've ever read: Thinking, Fast and Slow: Kahneman, Daniel: 9780374533557: Amazon.com: Books
His Princeton web page, already updated to note his passing: Daniel Kahneman (princeton.edu)
UPDATE: One more RIP to share: Joe Lieberman, Former Senator, Vice Presidential Nominee, Dies At 82 | National Review
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Just One Thing: Three Cheers for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police
The Maryland Transportation Authority Police…I didn’t know there was such an organization…should be holding their heads very high today.
While I don’t know how long it took for someone there to initially react to the mayday call of the disabled container ship that eventually destroyed the Key Bridge in Baltimore, a transcript of the police radio channel shows that from the time a dispatcher got on the radio to tell the police to hold traffic to the bridge, traffic was blocked at one end in 20 seconds, on half of the other end in 65 seconds, and in no more than 117 seconds for the remaining part of that other end, but it was probably less.
Even in the middle of the night, that incredible reaction time saved quite a few lives. Hats off to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.
Police had about 90 seconds to stop traffic before Baltimore Key bridge collapsed | AP News
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Bad parents and teachers and administrators have enabled these cretins
Look, there have always been campus protesters. But never have they been as whiney and entitled and moronic as today's college students. This has to stop. I'm glad some of these people were arrested and quite a few more were suspended. Not sure if that's enough but it's a start. Colleges must tell students now, and then at the beginning of every semester that there's a difference between free speech, including protests, and disrupting college activities, and the latter will not be tolerated.
Today's Guests
Matt Snider is an Aurora Civil Service Commissioner. He sued Aurora over the City Council repealing pit bull ban after voters voted to keep the ban in place. We have the result of the case now. So are pit bulls legal or illegal in Aurora and, more importantly, can we count on the City Council to actually abide by the law? To be clear, most (or maybe all...I'm not sure) of the members of the City Council involved in the decision challenged in the lawsuit are gone and the city attorney who supported them has announced his retirement.
Here's a story about the case going back to court...during the show we'll tell you what the judge then ruled: Appeals court sides with Aurora man, revives case challenging repeal of city’s pit bull ban - Sentinel Colorado
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Alejandro Brown is the founder and proprietor of the popular Instagram page I-70 Things.
Why i70things Instagram is a must-follow in Colorado (denverpost.com)
I-70 Things ® (@i70things) • Instagram photos and videos
Love this one: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C49QnzNM7i0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Other Stuff
The most important domestic political issue every year for the past 15-20 years at least, and for the foreseeable future: Biden and Trump Try To Wish Away the Looming Entitlement Crisis (reason.com)
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This is one example of why I say that politically the Republican Party better hope that the Supreme Court throws out the challenge to the easy availability of mifepristone based on the lack of standing by the plaintiffs. This issue is poison for the GOP. (And I'm sorta happy about that, but only sorta because the Democrats are so tremendously dangerous right now.) Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | AP News
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Ugh: RTD's light rail service cuts for construction could lose riders (denverpost.com)
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GOP candidate for special election to fill remainder of Ken Buck's term will be selected today: Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign (msn.com)
(I actually thought this was happening next week but the AP article says today.)
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Love this sort of stuff: William Shakespeare had a secret SIBLING: Long-lost document thought to have been written by the playwright's father was actually penned by his sister, Joan, study claims | Daily Mail Online
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Bad for chocaholics like me: Easter chocolate may get costlier as cocoa prices flirt with records near $10K (axios.com)
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This doesn't surprise me but there isn't yet enough data to call the findings robust: Child care benefits for workers effectively pay for themselves, new study finds (axios.com)
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Why is this not the law everywhere, already? DeSantis eliminates 'squatters' rights' in Florida, gives power to cops to remove offenders | Fox News
Meanwhile, here's how you have to do it in California: 'Squatter hunter' takes down squatters invading Americans' homes (americanmilitarynews.com)
And in Seattle: Seattle-Area Landlord Struggling to Evict Serial Squatter over Two Years of Non-Payment | National Review
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This is the stuff of revolution: Costco quietly makes a massive food court change - TheStreet
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What do you think? Tennessee bill authorizing use of death penalty for child rapists moves 1 step closer to becoming law | Fox News
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I still wouldn't vote for John Fetterman but he's so much better than what I'd expected. Well, actually Dr Oz was so freakin' terrible that if I knew then about Fetterman what I know now (and if I voted in PA), I might actually have considered it. OK, no I wouldn't have. (But I also wouldn't have voted for Oz.) But watch or read this and tell me you're not significantly pleasantly surprised:
Fetterman charts a different path, breaks with fellow Democrats in the Senate | Fox News
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I wish this were surprising: CA’s Architect of “Equity-Based Algebra” Accused of Academic Fraud (piratewires.com)
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Today's Videos
Wait a minute...what's that doggie in the back doing?!?
The definition of perseverance