Yes, Virginia, Things Will Probably Get Better...
Live from America's Better Self: Orientation Day https://twitter.com/delong/status/897880320250322944: Yesterday we had 750 groups of about 20 people each following standards around the campus: The Berkeley freshmen are here. Young, smart very idealistic, many very upwardly mobile, somewhat scared, very excited—at the prospect of being no longer children but themselves, and grown-ups.
You look at them, and you have to think America is very great indeed.
It is a very refreshing change from looking at the White House, or the congressional majorities, or the speakers on Fox News: terrifying their elderly viewers to keep their eyeballs glued to the TV set so that they can be sold overpriced gold funds and fake medicines endorsed by republican bigwigs like Huckabee and Carson...
