All posts by Rand Simberg
Which Is It?
This is a thing on Facebook, but I’ll do it here. I’ll list five famous people whom I’ve been within a few feet of, but one of them is a lie:
Mitt Romney
Buzz Aldrin
Fred Smith
Newt Gingrich
Bill Nelson
[Evening update]
All right, since everyone is guessing Mittens, I’ll start the slow process of elimination. I met him at the Conservative Summit in DC right after the disastrous 2006 election. I tried to talk to him briefly about space and advising him on it, but (as he later demonstrated), he didn’t give a rat’s patoot.
Monday-afternoon update]
OK, I’ve had enough guesses. I’ve known Buzz for decades; he used to call me in the middle of the night. I had lunch with Fred Smith at the Atheneum at Caltech in the 90s, when we were pitching him for funding for supersonic research. I talked to Newt for a while at a reception at the State Department a year ago. I’ve never been in physical proximity to Bill Nelson, or communicated with him.
Robin DiAngelo
An open letter to the true racist.
Only racists obsess about race.
[Sunday-afternoon update
The unbearable whiteness of being.
[Bumped]
The Winds Of Wokeness
Will Joe Biden survive them?
I hope not.
[Update Sunday morning]
It’s all about November 3rd.
“Everything that is happening between now and November 3 is about November 3. But the fundamental choice is not really Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It is civilization and America on one side, anarchy and woke tyranny on the other. The Democrats thought they could ride the tiger to victory. Instead, they will be consumed by the monster they created but could not control.
[Afternoon update]
The absolute power of cancel culture corrupts absolutely.
Totalitarianism
A blog post about the meaninglessness of the other labels, and how this is the only important one.
[Update Saturday morning]
Sorry, didn’t mean to post this, it was supposed to be a draft as a reminder to write a post. Have fun in comments.
Forcing Schools To Reopen
Don’t do it, but don’t force parents to pay for closed schools, either.
“Fund students, not systems.” Yes.
Barbados
Is planning to let visitors stay and work remotely for a year.
That’s worth considering. It’s a very interesting place, with good diving.
Academia
This is a great opportunity to destroy it.
Honestly, it has been committing slow suicide for years, but yes, time to put it out of its (and our) misery.
The Far Side
Gary Larson is baaaaaack.
Wow, it’s been decades since his last one.
The Cultural Revolution Continues
Thoughts from Jonathan Turley on canceling Steven Pinker.
[Update a while later]
The Woke mob’s “reign of terror” moment.
[Afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is genuinely concerned that genocide is coming to America.
There are still a few people alive who remember what happened in Germany in the thirties, and no one in the twenties could have imagined it could happen. The irony, of course, is that the people most likely to do this think that Trump is Hitler.