TLDR maybe but I’m so glad you brought this up! Here’s why we can’t have iconoclast generals in the U.S. anymore:
1947: Officer Personnel Act. We standardized “up-or-out.” Officers increasingly advanced through centralized boards and prescribed career timing instead of being… https://t.co/Og5M2Zk2jG
Tire dealers in Nevada and Arizona are clicking their champagne glasses. I’ll bet that there will also be a lot of Amazon deliveries.
California doesn't do these things for "efficiency", and the cost increase isn't an unfortunate side effect…it's the whole point. CA leaders deliberately make driving financially painful with the goal of forcing you onto public transport. They brag about it in legislation. https://t.co/PUjhkJwt2N
On the evening of 3 September 1897, in a rented hall in Basel, a Viennese journalist wrote a line in his diary that would sound insane to anyone who read it. At Basel, he wrote, he had founded the Jewish State. If he said so aloud, the world… pic.twitter.com/kfXBFDEqIH
I spent a lot of my youth in the public library, to the degree that I was once suspended from high school because I was caught there by the assistant principal instead of being in class.