How not to pass the bar exam

Apparently Ms. Kim Kardashian is blaming AI, specifically ChatGPT, for her failures to pass the California bar exam.  Somehow, the notion that one ought to study, say, law books in order to pass the bar escaped her, and she's learning the hard way that "hallucinations" (AI errors) leave a nasty mark when the exams are being graded.

It reminds me of a joke I learned in college: a young woman, dressed seductively, comes up to her professor and says "I'd do anything to pass your class", and then casually flips her hair.  The professor decides to play along, and says "Oh, you'd do anything, huh?".  Another hair flip, a breathy "yessss......", and the professor responds:

Would you.......study....? 

How not to make friends and influence people

As my legions (ha!) of readers well know, I am a died in the wool conservative with libertarian leanings, but on my Twitter feed, what I'm finding is that many people on the port side of the aisle actually like what I have to say--and it's not that I'm changing, but rather that we are finding we have something in common.

Along those lines, an interesting link I saw from one of these "likers" was an explanation of why the left didn't run away from Zohran Mamdani in New York City and the like.  It goes like this:

• If you have $0, you get welfare
• If you have over fifty million dollars, you get bailouts (and I might add, corporate welfare)
• If you have $2300 in savings, you qualify to fund the whole system and get lectured about how to budget better

 What's being illustrated here, really, is that what we have in our country is not capitalism with a safety net, but rather mercantilism--and it might be added a mercantilism that our President and his adherents fully support.  It is you and I, after all, that got stuck with the bill for Trump's six bankruptcies--those bankers taking the loss had to get that money from somewhere, and you have an account.

So we might infer that a way to reach the left, yes, even the progressive left, is to abandon mercantilism and go closer to classic conservatism.  WHen the progressive left sees that we are no longer subsidizing the rich, they're going to listen to us better when we point out that government run grocery stores and rent control lead to hunger and homelessness.