Friday, May 30, 2025

Rats, Rants, And Raves -- May 30, 2025

Locator: 48723RR&R.

Quick! What percent of students at Columbia University -- yes, that Columbia University -- come from China? Link here to The Wall Street Journal. I'll make it easy. Multiple choice. Best answer:
    ___ 0%
    ___ 10%
    ___ 50%
    ___ 100%

Same question, same choices. Cornell.

Same question, different choices. Harvard.

    ___ 10%
    ___ 20%
    ___ 30%
    ___ 40%

Adios, ABA: Trump administration / DOJ will no longer "comply" with ABA ratings. Link here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-tells-american-bar-association-no-longer-comply-ratings-judicial-nominees.

Colorado: teen killer and family being deported. Colorado let her walk; ICE says, "not so fast." Link here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/teen-illegal-immigrant-who-killed-woman-colorado-crash-gets-probation-arrested-ice-family.

Biden and The WSJ, flashback, link here. "Morning Joe" scoffed at this article.

EVs charging: more confusing than ever. Link here. 

Still takes forever. Fast charging is considered 24 minutes. Wow. Twenty-four minutes. That's a half hour of standing around. Or eating service station sushi. But, in general, it still takes 45 minutes for a full charge.

Spelling Bee champion: from Texas. Plano, TX, just up the road from our humble abode. Link here

David Brooks: never served in the military but still thinks he knows what drives warriors. Such chutzpah. Link here to The New York Times.

Lived hard, played hard. Link here to The New York Times. I hope to spend some time on this one later. 

Other obituaries and associated non-obituary stories:

NEPA: this story is so big I may post it every day for a week. One link here.

Racial quotas: another huge win for Trump. Link her to The WSJ.

Palantir: Trump will clean up the Signal mess. Link here to The New York Times. Last month: link to The New York Times

Trump: Over and over and over: examples of Trump not messing around. Addresses problems immediately. Before the press multiple times per day. Biden: "We're monitoring the situation." Appears before the press multiple times each decade.