jonhendry

Fred Clark (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/) recently drew attention to John Hagee, a Texas preacher who's been preaching about the imminent Rapture since the 1980s. His church recently spent millions of dollars to start a K-12 school. Which really isn't consistent behavior if you really believe the Rapture is imminent.

There's a SCOTUS case that says the government only has to pay a fair market value, not the "inflated by the government's need for the property" value. In the case a guy had bought a tugboat and fixed it up quite a bit. When WW2 started the government sought to buy it, and he insisted on a price well above the cost of the boat and the improvements, arguing that WW2 had increased demand so he should get a higher price.

So Musk would get a lot, but maybe not as much you'd think.

I'd think being there to take a photo of her mid-Caesarian section would have convinced him otherwise.

The bar for being treated as a genius by media seems extremely low now.

I guess we're going to find out just how committed they are to taking the trash when they leave.

I feel like TED bears some responsibility for this kind of thing, somehow.

Testing EQ would probably be opposed as "woke" by conservative parents in the school district.