You will notice that a lot of my links are from Rob Henderson, ACX, and Substack notes. Expect this to continue.
Ask Not, from Lexicon Valley. Two liberals who admire Kennedy's Inaugural learn some uncomfortable truths about the context. They are almost honest about it. John McWhorter is no longer doing Lexicon Valley and I may delete it from the sidebar. We'll see.
Losing My Religion Children lose their religion over a few generations rather than just one. This is the opposite of the anecdotes we tend to hear, and I can think of some dramatic examples in my lifelong acquaintances, but I will bet this is true.
A detective's guide to English place-names, from Dead Language Society
Place names are like this: what seems strange for an outsider is simply part of the scenery for a local, despite the fact that many place names are, indeed, very strange or mysterious. And nowhere is this truer than in England, where a commuter might pass by seven mysteries, four references to wars of conquest, and one well-disguised obscenity on their way into the office.1
The Sex Binary is not "High-School Biology."
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Ann Althouse headlines what the NYT buries in paragraph 8 and doesn't mention again. There is a fair point here. Maybe there have been too many emergencies recently that could have been handled differently. But there were lots of emergencies under Obama's "one," and changing Senate rules for the ACA or ordering air strikes in seven countries would seem to qualify.
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changing Senate rules for the ACA
I've been musing about this and doing a little Googling since I read it this morning, and this seems a little overbroad, or as it just occurred to me, misidentified.
There were lots of shenanigans involved in passing the ACA, especially in the Senate after Republican Scott Brown was elected to the seat vacated by the death of Democrat Ted Kennedy and the Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority. I'm sure there were calls to drop the filibuster then but the Democrat leadership decided to put the bill through reconciliation. While it removed the threat of a Republican filibuster it severely limited the provisions that could be included in the bill (as the GOP found out with the BBB) as well as amendments that could be offered. This caused lots of problems because various proposed changes to the initial structure of the bill couldn't be made.
I just now realized you may be thinking of Harry Reid invoking the procedure to change Senate rules by simple majority to eliminate the filibuster but he did that for all judicial nominations except USSC nominees, not the ACA.
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