You’ve probably read about it: Emmanuel Macron pulled off a tricky maneuver to increase the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 by 2030. The news ignited protests all over the country. Click here.

Here’s what’s interesting: Raising the retirement age is something that one would expect from a conservative politician. But Macron is not a conservative. Depending on where one stands, he is either a left-leaning centrist or a moderate leftist.

So, why did he do it? Why did he piss off half of the French electorate by making such an aggressive and right-of-center move?

I can think of only one reason. He doesn’t want to be remembered as the president that allowed the country’s social security system to go into bankruptcy.

Good News for Legal Jumbo Dumbos! 

After six years of trying, the American Bar Association has finally succeeded in eliminating the requirement for college students to take the LSATs in order to get into law school. The reason: The results of the test have “reduced the diversity” of the incoming student population. Click here.

What’s next? Eliminating written tests for commercial airplane pilots?

I’m just teasing.

Here’s what I really think: LSATs, however effective they may be in measuring certain forms of intelligence, do not test for certain lawyerly qualities that matter a lot. Qualities like doggedness and eloquence and, yes, the gift of rhyme. (As in, “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit!”) As I’ll explain one of these days, I prefer competence testing over intelligence tests.