As a parent, I actually support this idea. And it’s partly because kids are simply not always “controllable,” by any human, in a confined space after many hours.

Before I was a parent, I thought the right discipline would solve everything, but airplanes in particular are brutal environments, with very little space to move and limited options to distract them. Even screens, which are close to a silver bullet, don’t always work. Travel is exhausting and challenging for kids, and kids were never evolved well to handle being locked in a seat for hours, let alone dealing with pressure and time zone changes.

So please, until we have adults only zones, have a little patience. There are certainly bad parents, but I guarantee that most of them want their kid to be quiet even more than you do.

Should be a counterpart for women as well.

They actually say that exact thing about democrats because of gun control.

People are making a mistake about viewing Republicans as a block. The way conservatives work is that a single issue is enough to get them to vote for the party.

If that single issue is being against abortion, then the GOP stance gets their support. But if their concerns are gun control or immigration control, they will overlook the disagreement on abortion rights because it probably doesn’t affect them directly.

Exactly. Economic development follows universities.

People don’t even understand history.

I was saying to a friend that I can see that the skies are emptier than when I was growing up.

The saddest thing is if you learn about the wildlife populations the first Europeans recorded in America. Skies darkened by birds. Game by the tens of thousands.

We live in an empty desert of our own making now and most of us don’t even know it.

Wishes are always problematic.

They inevitably devolve into lawyering.

Central banks buying up all the bad debt every time there is a crisis creates a massive moral hazard.

Basically the best business model is to rack off the most garbage debt possible then wait for the next crisis and let the central banks eat all the risk.

I have been outraged over Syria, but the solutions are far less clear. What solution are you proposing there?

Awesome speech. The saddest thing is that most republicans will never be aware of it.

Great writer. Tragic stories.

I have a friend who is a female pilot. The amount of bullshit she has to put up with from loser copilots who think they are god’s gift just because they got through a crappy flight school is unreal. She has held back her own career just to fly solo so she doesn’t have to deal with the nasty comments and stories. Again, tragic.

Renewable energy seemed good.