ArbitraryValue

The pageboy haircut: sexy but not so sexy that it can make a frog sexy. Or can it...

Not a good title (because that's not what his reasoning is) but a good article.

Kavanaugh warned that there is a “risk,” if the Court releases a majority opinion when the case reaches them on the shadow docket, “of a lock-in effect, of making a snap judgment and putting it in writing, in a written opinion that’s not going to reflect the final view.”

It's not an unreasonable argument in theory, but I think Kavanaugh is trying to have his cake and eat it too. If the judgement doesn't need to be explained because it's a sort of rough draft that may be significantly modified later, then the judgement should be made with caution and deference to precedent because it is, after all, a rough draft and making big changes without fully considering the consequences would be unwise. Therefore "We're temporarily limiting the President's powers to what they have traditionally been interpreted to be" wouldn't need an explanation but "We're temporarily approving a significant extension of the President's powers" does need one, and I'm not just saying that because the President is Trump. I get the poor consolation of being consistently disappointed as both Democrats and Republicans expand the power of the executive branch. (There is, however, a dramatic difference in magnitude - Trump is expanding executive power more than any president since at least FDR.)

I would be a fool if I gave all my money to a charlatan, and I'm no fool. That proves that Jesus IV is the real deal.

I seem to recall that there is a proverb about how doing this is a great idea. Or is it the other way around?

I actually failed my molecular biology course, and I'm still a little salty about that. I understood molecular biology. I didn't memorize stuff like the order in which subunits bind to assemble the pre-replication complex.

After ORC1-6 bind the origin of replication, Cdc6 is recruited. Cdc6 recruits the licensing factor Cdt1 and MCM2-7. Cdt1 binding and ATP hydrolysis by the ORC and Cdc6 load MCM2-7 onto DNA.

Note that they're numbered but the numbers aren't related to the order in which they act. I don't need to know that. No one who doesn't do research specifically on the pre-replication complex needs to know that.

(Excuses, excuses...)

I had an organic chemistry class in college where the average grade was a C. I was a chemistry major and I passed with a D. A couple of other would-be chemistry majors dropped the class. The professor actually told us that we were the worst group of students he had ever taught (and it was his last class before retirement).

I don't think he was a bad teacher, because I certainly was a bad student.

Also he talked about the need to cut down on burning fossil fuels, but less due to environmental concerns and more due to the lost opportunity to make plastics and other interesting substances out of them.

I write my texts like I'm writing a cover letter or a wedding invitation to flex on the less erudite and meticulous.

I get permitting these blogs as part of a commitment to avoid censorship - someone with non-mainstream but far less extreme opinions can look at them and say "If Substack doesn't censor even these guys, it definitely won't censor me." With that said, I'm still surprised that Substack apparently doesn't manually curate its push notifications.

What does "asking for trouble" mean to people? I would interpret it as "choosing to take an unnecessary risk". It's not a term I would use in this context, but it doesn't necessarily imply that being the source of the trouble is morally permissible.

Is he just saying that because he can't resist an opportunity to assert his power? Or is there some 4D chess thing going on in his head according to which pardoning her (or even drawing attention to the possibility of pardoning her) helps him? It seems like such a bad idea to me that I can't imagine what he's thinking.