An NBA player was quoted on a podcast as saying if your kid is good enough to be competitive then they’re too competitive to pay to play. It was a comment on the pyramid scam of youth travel leagues. Parents lit him up in the comments. I was reminded that no one likes to know they’re being scammed.

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One recurring thing about paper submissions from academic versus independent scholars is the scale of ideas. People with research jobs write 100 pages on, "Tuesday theories fail to adequately differentiate morning from afternoon," while the independent scholars write 19 pages on, "Time is a myth."

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“Sensible people who look at what’s being proposed here think this is insane,” said JP Bryan, a conservative former oil executive who owns two ranches and a popular hotel in the Big Bend region. “Anyone who supports this ought to put their name on this wall, so it can go down in infamy forever.”

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MARCO RUBIO: These people are lunatics. They are insane STEPHANOPOULOS: You call then 'lunatics,' but Trump just posted that 'we're in discussions with a new and more reasonable regime'

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We are, of course, not the only country to grant unconditional birthright citizenship: at least 35 countries do that. And if the authors of the 14th Amdt wanted to restrict it to slaves & their descendants, they could have done that. They didn’t, very deliberately & intentionally.

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