Teacher sees dope deal go down, pulls both students in. Weed/speed/whatever is "missing" and no sign it was dropped... now you get in the territory of _maybe_ getting to a more intimate search.
Yeah, agreed, a more thorough search is called for. But that search should be conducted by the police, not school administrators. And call the parents. This is not in school administrators' remit.
I would have been somewhat amused if their laptop got stolen as well. Yes, I know I'm a terrible person.
Exactly, to put it differently, "steal an iPhone one day and have a free laptop delivered to you the next."
I'm pretty sure that a white hummer is worse for the environment then a small black sedan.
Agreed, but what if you could fix both problems? Ban hummers (the vehicles) and make dark-colored cars more energy-efficient and you're better off than if you did only one or the other.
It seems to me that, when faced with a proposal that makes, say, a 5% improvement on a problem, a common negative response is that the solution doesn't entirely correct the problem so why bother? A 5% improvement gets us to a 5% better world. Solve the hummer (the vehicle) problem next. The two are not zero-sum.
Explain why we are still not in an ice age if the "natural contributions of the Earth's own systems" are stable and don't cause climate change.
The natural contributions referred to do contribute to climate change, of course, as do other factors like fluctuations in the Earth's orbit around the sun and continental drift. The thing that makes the anthropogenic contributions to climate change troublesome is that they happen over a dramatically shorter period of time than is typical for natural events.
And when I say, "troublesome", I mean, of course, troublesome to us. The Earth will cheefully cruise along whether we infest it or not.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League