Archive for 2023

SO I’VE SET UP A DONATION LINK VIA STRIPE that will let people donate via credit cards, Apple Pay, etc. We’ve tested it, and if it performs suitably it will replace the PayPal donation button. Helen pronounces it “very easy.” Also looking into Substack, at the recommendation of numerous readers in my earlier post. (Bumped).

ADVICE THAT WON’T BE FOLLOWED:

OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

I HOPE THEY ARRANGE IT SO THAT HARVARD AND YALE FALL OUT OF THE TOP 10: U.S. News & World Report, facing backlash, revamps its law school rankings.

The “backlash” is weird, though. It was spurred by schools — like #1 Yale — that were doing fine under the old system. It’s not “backlash” for something U.S. News suddenly did, but rather a sudden desire for change, a desire emanating from the fat and comfortable. Presumably it’s so they can grow even more fat and comfortable but with even less external accountability.

DOES MARS HAVE RIGHTS? Rand Simberg explains things to the clueless. “Rocks don’t have rights, and Mars is simply a very large rock.”

As always, the point isn’t so much to give rights to Mars, as to take freedoms away from humans.