Clearing up some misconceptions among the enthusiasts. Spaceflight isn’t “safe.” It’s also not “unsafe.” That any activity is either of those things in any absolute sense is a myth. It is all relative.
I’m assuming that Ed Wright wrote this, but it’s not clear.
Some free-market lessons. It is key that we decouple health insurance from employment. It has really screwed things up for decades. If there’s going to be a tax deduction for it, it should go to the individual, not the employer.
Seem to be entirely self afflicted. As a brilliant commenter notes, ironically, they failed to have a backup plan.
I’m glad I’m not a stockholder, and I’m unlikely to be until they change out their idiotic management.
New to me, anyway. As a result of his unwarranted and biased persecution by the head of his university, I’ve discovered Steve Landsburg’s blog. It’s good stuff.
Does it drive people nuts? What can’t it do?
Not clear, though, what’s cause and what’s effect.
The real bias in it.
Go wish him well after his recent heart attack.
For those who don’t know who he is, he is the artistic side of the former political-blogging/cartooning team of Cox and Forkum.
…for the purpose of bending religion to the will of the State:
The Obama administration has just put into force a new regulation under Obamacare that amounts to the most far-reaching instance of governmental religious intolerance since the Blaine Amendments. There is no other word but intolerance to describe what the rule aims to do: It doesn’t say that people should have the freedom to use contraceptive or abortive drugs —- which of course they do have in our country. It doesn’t even say that the government should facilitate people’s access to these drugs —- which of course it does today and has for many years, at great public expense. It says, rather, that the Catholic Church and others who have religious objections to the use of such drugs should facilitate people’s access to them. It says that we will not tolerate an institution in our society that, for religious reasons, is not willing to actively put into effect the views of those in power regarding contraception, abortion, and sterilization——that we won’t just let it be and find other ways to put those views into effect but will compel the dissenting institution itself to participate in the facilitation of access to these things on behalf of the people it employs, or else we will levy a heavy fine against it. We cannot abide even passive disagreement. That is a refusal to exercise even a moderate portion of toleration toward religious believers and institutions. It says, in effect, that the substance of religious convictions merits no regard from the state. And yet it seems that the forms of religious practice can be marshaled in the service of political objectives. The prayer vigil as PR stunt is expected to coexist with rank intolerance as public policy, and the White House itself is encouraging the stunt.
Without their hypocrisy and power hunger, they’d have nothing.
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If you’re concerned about your man’s heart health, give him what he needs (it’s good for you, too).