Here’s something I hadn’t considered before about legacy admission preference. Heard a president if a small college in Minnesota this morning discussing the recent SCOTUS ruling and the subject of legacy came up. She said the admission process takes into account the “yield” - the percentage of actual acceptances out of those the college hands out. An applicant whose family member attended the college would be more likely to attend also - thus increasing the yield.

Okay, the Supreme Court ruled that universities can’t use race as a factor in admissions. But they did say that through essays and other means an applicant can mention their experience as a black person. So how will that new policy be enforced? Oh, and another thing. Roberts said there should be an exception for military academies. Why should that be? As one of the liberal dissenters said, “It’s okay to have diversity in the bunker but not the boardroom?”

@ChristopherNoyesRoberts Exactly, and that was my point. No one truly wants an every man for himself society. So order is needed.How that order is managed is the ongoing conundrum. “Consent of the governed” doesn’t cut it if the mechanisms for making that consent known are tampered with.

@GreenCheese It was my understanding that your religion also included Wednesdays for Rest and Personal Improvement. Has there been a reformation? 😊

@ChristopherNoyesRoberts But politics require a definition of reality, and that definition differs among the players, because there’s no supreme authority to decree it.

I take it you’re not against authority, as long as it’s beneficent. Good luck! Libertarianism suffers from its basic tenet - that no one should be told what to do, backed up by that force monopoly you referred to. So libertarians have to compromise, knowing society cannot function with the chaos of every man for himself.

@ChristopherNoyesRoberts Which party?😮

@ReneeVoiceBrand @ChristopherNoyesRoberts Well, they never had “control” of the Senate (sixty votes), but I see your point.

@TrueBloodNet Sun god worshippers should refuse to work between sunrise and sunset.

@GreenCheese And what religion would that be if I may ask?

The Supreme Court strikes again in favor of religious beliefs/practices. Ruled in favor of a man who sued the postal service for making him share the shift responsibilities among his coworkers by requiring some Sunday workdays. Everyone, I’m sure, would like to have a guaranteed particular day off during the week. Easier to make plans in advance. Does this open the door for Jews demanding Saturdays off and Muslims Fridays? Or is it just Christians who get this break?

@ChristopherNoyesRoberts Just tellin’ it like it is. 😀

Yeah, they’d have to, wouldn’t they? We can’t have new universes popping up all the time from black holes. Much too messy.

@ChristopherNoyesRoberts I have no idea what a singularity is, exactly, and neither does anyone else. It’s a nebulous term that defies measurements.

@thedisasterautist Earth will be long gone before Hawking’s theory can be proved. 😉 I have trouble with the singularity theory of the start of the universe. No one can define, without using infinite as an adjective, what a singularity is, and astrophysicists maintain that at the heart of every black hole is a singularity. Must be a different kind of singularity than that which started the Big Bang, I guess. Or maybe every black hole will eventually have a Big Bang and create a universe.

Any astrophysicists out there who can answer this question: If there is a singularity at the center of a black hole, why doesn’t it “explode” like the singularity that supposedly started our universe?

It’s probably happened already, but guess what the response of Republicans in Congress will be to the leaked recording of Trump showing and talking about one of those classified documents to guests at his club. Outrage at Trump’s callous regard for military secrets? No. Dismay at the danger he poses to national security? Wrong again. It’s the leaker who will get their ire. “This leaker must be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law!

@LlamaMountainStudioArts Inactivity has its own set of problems, I agree. .

@LlamaMountainStudioArts Yeah, correlation is not the same as cause and effect, and it’s natural to blame specific injuries for later disability. Who knows if I’d have the same issues if I’d been a couch potato all my life.

If young people could look into the future to see what eventually happens to their bodies after years of athletic pursuits, they wouldn’t play sports! I’ve had a knee replacement and am scheduled for a hip replacement, and my back goes out at least twice a year. But no. Being young means thinking it’ll never happen to you, right? And let’s face it, sports are fun. Getting old? Ha! That’ll be the day.