The Failing New York Times

High School teacher (guy who went to Regis) would give us extra credit if we found a typo or mistake in the Times.
Don't think he realized how mean that is to Roxanne Gay.

As a first-year doctoral student I had an econ professor offer our class $5 per error (grammatical or typographical) found in a research paper he was about to submit to a journal. The manuscript (not counting references, tables and figures) was about 30 pages long. I was the only student to give it a go, and had I held him to his offer, he'd have owed me >$100. I laughed it off when he tried to pay me.

I got the better end of the deal, though. A year later I asked him to do a directed studies "course" for me in summer school, and not only did he not make me do anything other than read the definitive textbook on the subject, while doing that I stumbled across a little idea that led to a paper that still gets cited occasionally.

The New York Times, flexing its First Amendment rights, says the Constitution is dangerous.

These are some of the oddest arguments you make: that you like something, and you aren't giving it up.

I like air conditioning, too. That has nothing to do with whether it is harmful or not to the environment. 

At some point, even a rock-ribbed conservative like yourself has to concede that there are circumstances under which externalities outweigh the benefit an individual draws from some luxury.

Cities like Atlanta, Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, etc. basically would not exist, as we know them, without air conditioning.

It’s going to be a tough sell to argue that humanity would be better off without it.