Trump would have won 311 electoral votes.
Scum.
All posts by Rand Simberg
That Took Long Enough
One of Wikipedia’s co-founders is going to set up an alternative that is less biased toward the port side.
A Modest Proposal For Republicans
Make it a real class war.
Long, but a lot of good ideas here.
The Low Spark Of High-Speed Rail
The latest on the ongoing California debacle. Some of us predicted this a dozen years ago. It never made economic sense.
Iran
…has already beaten Biden.
Well, it’s pretty easy with someone who apparently wants to be beat.
A Chinese-American Rights group
…calls Critical Race theory “a hateful fraud.”
They’re not wrong. They know Maoism when they see it. They didn’t flee one cultural revolution to come to another.
A Space Shanty
A very nice one.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
OK, now let’s come up with some verses for “What Shall We Do With The Drunken Belter?”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Laura Montgomery has another one from a few years ago, but no known tune.
Propellant Depots
An interesting discussion at Selenian Boondocks.
Internal Divisions
…are America’s greatest vulnerability.
Yup. And it’s not by accident.
Fry’s
RIP.
I’ve seen this coming for a couple years, with the empty shelves, and going to a consignment business model. I don’t think it would have survived anyway, but the pandemic was the last nail in the coffin. It’s the end of an era.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Bryan Preston remembers Fry’s. Our Fry’s was Tahitian themed. It was probably also the smallest store in the chain, perhaps because of real-estate prices in Manhattan Beach. It never carried appliances. If I wanted to have more selection, I had to drive to the ones in Commerce, Canoga Park, or Fountain Valley.
[Bumped]