What if you never had to stop to make that left turn again? no one Did I have to sit at that left turn again (at least from 7am to 9pm on business days)?
Dan Pink He believes it’s time to abandon the tyranny of left turns, at least at busy urban intersections. He’s crunched the numbers and concluded that left turns are bad for driver safety, driver satisfaction and overall efficiency.
A compelling model that Professor Dunn calls “the Nancy Reagan of left turns…just say no” shows that eliminating half of a city’s busiest left turns “could reduce total travel times by about 15 percent.”
“Of course, banning certain left turns means that some drivers may have a longer journey to their destination, perhaps making three consecutive right turns,” Dan acknowledges, but this is just the first of the “lizard-brain” rebuttals he predicts to the anti-left movement.
but, Do itThat way, drivers will finally understand how much they’re gaining in the long run and how the policy helps pedestrians and the environment, he says.
It’s true that a few lost seconds might hurt the podcast industry, but I doubt many of us would lose much sleep over it if we got home 15 percent earlier than planned and crawled into our Casper mattresses.
Chaser: Or don’t drive at all! I recently rode in a self-driving Waymo ride-hailing vehicle for the first time. Megan McArdle He reported that he wasn’t as surprised as I was.
Some Americans never want to be told which direction to go — they want to evaluate all the information for themselves and choose left over right, or vice versa.
To see more of this, just watch Thursday’s debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump (see what I’m saying?).
EJ Dionne We provide a preview of the showdown, including which voters each candidate should appeal to and what they need to prove with their performance. Most interestingly, EJ refutes the myth that Biden needs a debate more than Trump.
“Trump needs to energize more voters, restrain himself from trying to appear rational, hide his love of conspiracy theories, and stop making the debate about himself,” EJ wrote. “I’m skeptical he can pull all of this off.”
Trump that’s right But what he wants from conservative justices on the Supreme Court is Jen Rubin Frustrated that the court had yet again ruled without any mention of Trump’s possible immunity from prosecution, she wrote, “There is no better evidence of the majority’s malice and bias than its foot-stomping.”
All Trump wanted was to delay his prosecution, ideally until after the election, or at least after the debates, and the Supreme Court effectively did just that.
Chaser: Ramesh Ponnuru Biden wrote that he would be wise to grill Trump about his unpopular pledge to strip funding from schools that require vaccinations.
Compare this to the 50-plus classmates in the tort law class he attended at the same time at Yale Law School.
Darnell Epps In his op-ed, he explains that he attended Lincoln Tech in addition to law school because he wanted to better understand the manufacturing labor shortage in the United States, especially since the jobs there pay well and often cover the education costs involved.
Earning the double diploma “reaffirmed my belief in the potential of skilled trades,” Epps wrote, “but for the country to actually attract enough talent to fill new factories, we must reframe the narrative about skilled trades and foster a cultural appreciation for these important jobs.”
It’s easy to imagine a bright future as a Yale Law School graduate. It should be just as easy to imagine a bright future as someone with a Lincoln Institute of Technology degree.
Since we’re still missing the heavenly fireball-melting-everything-in-its-path dress (coming soon at Zara!), it’s sundress season again this summer, and people are really thinking about this slip.
Magdalene TaylorThe author of the Substack newsletter Many Such Cases, reflects on the sexual politics of sundresses and sees them as a positive return to clothing that is understood, or at least enjoyed, through a male gaze (she contrasts sundresses with other recent fashion trends that are also enjoyed through a male gaze): Gay; I could write a lot about the gray sweatpants, but I’ll leave it to Taylor to talk about the sundress.
“Social media tends to flatten everything — the what-ifs, the expectations, the secrets — and move straight toward banality,” she says. “Sundresses allow the viewer and the wearer to materialize their own desires.”
- Kathleen Parker Searching for hope in Haiti, in the rural village of Lanquit, I found a glimmer of hope at an all-pink kindergarten graduation ceremony.
- Vladimir Kara-Murza “I am not a foreign agent,” he wrote from a Russian prison. That doesn’t change President Vladimir Putin’s definition of a foreign agent: anyone who opposes him.
- of Editorial Committee He writes that the Maryland governor’s marijuana amnesty is a good model for the country.
It’s goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s… “goodbye.”
Two mistakes don’t make one right
You need to make three left turns
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