But surely you can sympathize with "I called all the senior people in my field idiots and crashed out of academia," right?

Epic turnaround speeds, well done.

I'm glad I as a newcomer can help you see it through new eyes! People occasionally have to do this for me with respect to Lexington, hah!

Happy Easter!

King!

The current 12-game Jeopardy champion works at an affordable housing finance agency in NJ, and shamed New York for not building more housing:
"NJ's doing really well, we're ahead of NY, CT, PA. If you're from one of those states, shame on you, build more housing."

The Company Destroying an ENTIRE Sport. YouTube video by OneHandedBowling

All of this is extra strange as this company also owns the PBA, and so presumably has an enormous financial stake in competitive league bowling.
youtu.be/rL-qgqkzatA?...

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

I don't blame Lowe at all!

I think the problem is that college sports can't decide what it wants to be: if it wants to be the G League, there should be unions, standard contracts, no coursework, etc. If it wants to be college sports, you can't have guys transferring every year and taking cross continental flights on Tuesdays

"Congress will save us" is the commentariat refrain and it's so funny to me. You're relying on an even more dysfunctional institution to save the sport?

NCAA either doesn't understand the product, or doesn't care enough to save it. College basketball isn't NBA lite. Fans care more about teams, programs, and schools than individual superstars. Hard to stay interested when they reset every year with guys who aren't even pretending to go to the school.

Thanks to the NIL, there are no more teams in college basketball, just fleeting assemblages of mercenaries.

An amusing non sequiter in a TRIH episode

I take the point, but it's a bit funny that many of these countries actually have a king.

America saw Russia in a totally quixotic war that accomplishes nothing except to drain resources and asked, "say, how do we get in on that?"

Every Sacramento friend group looks like this.

Good luck, Coach Pitino!

With a very nice new park next door!

A long-vacant lot turns into 61 homes in West Sacramento. (2008➡️2011)

Ten high-rises, 1,600 homes: A dramatic plan to reshape Marin’s largest city A wave of high-rise apartment buildings could transform this Marin County city’s skyline.

San Rafael, a city that hasn't permitted 1,600 homes over the past 30 years combined, is on gearing up to build ~1,600 homes in the next two or three years alone.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Four of the top five metropolitan areas where families are stuck renting are in California—we've got to remove the additional hurdles facing homeownership projects and fix this.
www.realtor.com/research/who...

UNACCEPTABLE

Underrated argument for common sense zoning reform: I think it's mentally and spiritually corrosive to instruct public servants to uphold incoherent rules.

ADU for You Your starting place for building an ADU in NYC.

Eight years ago, I was a city planner in Central Queens. One of the worst part of the job was having to tell homeowners that it wasn't legal to build an ADU. Now New York City has a whole website dedicated to helping homeowners build an ADU. The arc of justice is long, etc.
housing.hpd.nyc.gov/adu

The inaugural meeting of the Sacramento YIMBY Bowling Club will be meeting this weekend. Please DM me if you would like details.

Hah, correctly diagnosed error...

I think you're underrating how much chaos a clean up bill might have caused.