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Senior Fellow at . Finance, ESG, freedom, and pandas. Promoting a new abundance agenda. Host of the podcast.
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If you're near D.C., you simply must come to Hillwood for the Spring azalea (and rhododendron) season.
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RETVRN.
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In 1958, Ira A. Schulman (1908-1970) opened Champ’s at 1524 K Street NW, near the Sheraton Carlton and Statler-Hilton hotels. This is a luncheon menu from Champ’s, dated February 27, 1962. The restaurant closed that year, superseded by the Knife and Fork on M Street.
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Roads in the US are not funded by the government
They are funded by the American public through a system known as the motor fuel tax
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Hi @elonmusk.
The @BBC is not funded by the UK government.
It is funded by the British public through a system known as the licence fee.
The BBC's operations and editorial decision-making are entirely independent of the government
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The BBC is principally funded through a licence fee paid by UK households; the amount is set by the government in a periodic 'licence fee settlement'. As with any government imposed tax, it’s government mandated. UK government is currently reviewing this arrangement.
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/future-funding…
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I heard this guy play at an event in D.C. in, iirc, 2004 or so. He was great!
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nothing to see here folks just a very normal career trajectory
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A very fond #DavesCarIDService farewell to the fastest hot rodder of all time, Craig Breedlove, who died April 4 at age 87. 1st human to surpass 400, 500, & 600 mph at Bonneville. His training wheels: this 1934 Ford 3w coupe, purchased at age 13 for $75. Godspeed to the GOAT.
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If you believe every election is rigged against the good guys, actually winning an election means you must be a bad guy. (Probably a mistake to make this the Republican brand.)
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"Hey, I'm nappin' here!"
*slaps hood of taxi*
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Wow, so much problematic subtext here.
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It shouldn't take 4 years to approve 86 units of senior housing (especially near transit and services in a place like Tenleytown). D.C. local government can do better.
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DC's sclerotic government, here the Court of Appeals, yesterday gave final approval to building Sunrise senior residences on Tenley Circle at Wisconsin Ave Baptist Church.
Plan is for 86 senior units plus a church.
First BZA hearing was 11/14/18.
#Tenleytown #SunriseSeniorLiving
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The time the city’s longing serving alderman got caught extorting a Burger King for $2000 because another alderman had agreed to wear a wire for the FBI after being caught exchanging political favors for large quantities of viagra
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Idea: Brandon Johnson could call for a fifth star to the flag but let city council choose what it’s for.
exactly the kind of group project that could break the ice for a new class of alders.
what would be your fifth star?
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Gay marriage, disenfranchising Russians, and a flat income tax. Estonian politics is fascinating. 😂
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It's officially that time of the week when we spam our guest's Twitter mentions to let them know they are loved and valued. 🥰🥰🥰
Please join me and the team in reminding that he is smart and insightful. (Also, all aboard the eco-modernism train!)
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Our feature interview this week is w/ eco-modernist deep thinker and all-around nice guy @atrembath of @TheBTI. You can listen to the interview portion on the podcast itself, or you can watch the conversation w/ host @RichardMorrison on YouTube here:
youtube.com/watch?v=WnUTVT
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Democracy in action.
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Our graduate students work hard, but they play hard too. They’re working on a petition to get third-year graduate student Dario Cardamone (from Italy) to dine at Olive Garden. They’re nine signatures away from the required 50:
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Rob is the no-BS masculinity advice expert we need.
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Young guys: Spend six months in the gym, eat a healthy diet, buy clothes that fit, get a good haircut, work hard, increase your earning potential, and improve your social skills. Then see if you can find a compatible romantic partner. If you can't, then it's your fault. twitter.com/robkhenderson/…
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You can't quite see it in these photos, but the skin texture on this sculpture is alarmingly naturalistic. It even has faint blue veins painted in on the extended hand. Uncanny valley law enforcement art.
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weird cop statue... friendship heights not beating the bad vibe allegations
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El estado del país es fuerte.
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Some on the enviro left that are in favor of any alternative *until* it actually becomes viable, upon which they suddenly discover problematic trade-offs that were ignored during the slogan stage. At that point, the purity spiral begins and they're against everything again.
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The fact that some progressives are now opposing the transmission lines that their policy preferences would inevitably require is illustrative of how slogans and sexy messages may get certain people excited, but they don’t solve real problems.
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Let's go, Arkansas and Alabama!
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If you spend you time getting mad about *Little Free Libraries*, of all things, you really need to take a moment and eat/pray/love your way to some inner peace.
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If any of these things make you angry, I'm sorry to say that some small but important part of your soul is dead.
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I wonder if there will be any university presidents or administrators who will become famous, like Hayakawa did in 1968, for pushing back on violence and radicalism on U.S. campuses. There seems to be an appetite for it.
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Originally a Democrat, the Canadian-born Japanese-American linguist Hayakawa eventually changed parties and ran for office as a Republican. He became a U.S. senator from California in 1977:
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1
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The recent protest and violence at San Francisco State reminds me of the career of former SFSU president S. I. Hayakawa, who became a conservative hero in 1968 for pushing back on student radicalism:
nytimes.com/1992/02/28/us/
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“We just don’t [do any work] and, like, we still get paid,” she said she was told by other recruiters in a viral TikTok video documenting her experience.
If people in your social circle relate to each other by quoting captions from New Yorker cartoons, you are not normal (sorry).
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"I'm not in an upper-middle-class professional bubble - I worked at an ice cream stand for a summer when I was in undergrad!" is not the populist flex you think it is, Deputy Assistant Secretary Smith.
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Side note: It is *amazing* the lengths D.C. people will go to prove to each other they have knowledge of the normie economy. Imagine a table full of people with graduate degrees in economics trying to one up each other w/ the service sector jobs they had in college.
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Sometimes I like to imagine what jobs Beltway people would have if Washington, D.C. didn't exist. Kind of like the "What will your job be on the commune after the revolution?" discourse, but for public policy nerds.
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To be clear, I am a coastal elite. There are moments when I know the entire panel on CNN. Too much time in the beltway.
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"When we aggregate across subsidy types, total subsidies appear to have a statistically significant *negative* impact on subsequent TFP growth."
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Chinese industrial policy doesn't seem to be good at ‘picking winners’; firms’ ex-ante productivity is negatively correlated with subsidies they receive, & subsidies seem to have a negative impact on firms’ ex-post productivity growth, @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
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There should only be one building for local government offices in the Chicago area. Build The Illinois, cowards!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illin
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does anybody know if brandon takes the green line to the county building? is he planning on taking it as mayor?
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