And often abandoned. Just like many mining towns in the West.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Gonorrhea
…is on the verge of being untreatable.
Wonderful.
The Best Anti-Poverty Agenda
Female @rgasm
There are two kinds.
The science is settled.
Clueless Scientists
Some thoughts on their foolish political tendencies. And as noted, this Sagan quote is crucial in the “settled climate science” debate:
Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those that tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious who comes ambling along.
“Scientist” isn’t a profession. We are all scientists to one degree or another, if we are successful at every-day living.
Our First Woman President
Is it Barack Obama?
It’s a compelling thesis.
How Americans Party
Foreigners explain.
Bullying
Some thoughts from Lileks:
Oh grow up. Please. Any form of disputation is now “Bullying,” as if the act of being less than supportive is a passive version of pushing someone down in the mud in the playground. The spread of the term beyond school infantilizes everyone and dilutes the term. Criticism is bullying; failure to agree with someone else’s precepts is “hate.” The internet did not invent this; it just allowed people with mushy noggins to retreat into supportive spaces where everyone outside the wall was a meany.
And there are a lot of mushy noggins out there.
Another Second-Amendment Victory
The 9th Circuit seems to be taking Heller seriously. We really do have the gun grabbers on the run, constitutionally.
New Pressure To Accelerate Commercial Crew?
Someone needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that “as soon as possible” could be within a year, if they accelerate the docking system, and they could fly someone in ten days, if someone decided it was important.