Biden has vastly exceeded my low expectations.
[Early-afternoon update[
Category Archives: History
Still Think Joe Isn’t Too Old?
Treacher is scathing today.
[Update a while later]
Joe Biden is who we said he was.
Yes. The amount of delusion that he was what the country needed was breathtaking.
To Declassify
…or not to declassify? That is the question. An interesting article on space weapons and deterrence.
Question Asked
Our Whole National-Security Apparatus
[Update a while later]
Fire the military and intelligence higher ups now. And yes, Biden should be fired, too, but that’s the job of either the Congress now, or the voters later.
What China Wants
…and why. An excellent description of their history and motivations.
Farewell To The Bourgeois Kings
A long, but worthwhile essay on the current state of affairs after the ghastly fall of Afghanistan.
[Update mid-afternoon]
The Afghanistan debacle was the end of the liberal world order.
The 25th Amendment
The Democrats can’t even use it to get Biden out of office. The latest polling has Biden’s numbers sinking, and they haven’t even polled since the debacle in Afghanistan.
Seventeen Years later
It’s interesting to read this essay that I wrote on space policy just after the first flight of SpaceShipOne and see how it’s held up. Things haven’t happened as quickly as I had hoped, and the government policy has remained awful with respect to NASA human spaceflight, but I think we’re finally on the verge of seeing things happen.
The Vanishing Legacy Of Barack Obama
Matt Taibi’s post-mortem is withering:
Obama was set up to be the greatest of American heroes, but proved to be a common swindler and one of the great political liars of all time — he fooled us all. Moreover, his remarkably vacuous post-presidency is proving true everything Trump said in 2016 about the grasping Washington politicians whose only motives are personal enrichment, and who’d do anything, even attend his wedding, for a buck. Trump’s point was that he, Trump, was already swinishly rich, while politicians have only one thing to sell to get the upper class status they crave: us.
Well, actually Matt, he didn’t fool us all. He never fooled me.