Stop repairing your own car.
This is an amazingly different country than the one I grew up in.
All posts by Rand Simberg
The SJWs Find A New Victim Class
I’m an introvert. These people are neurotic nutcases.
Wisconsin’s Dirty Prosecutors
….pull a Putin.
Laws are for the little people. And Republicans.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I hadn’t read David French’s original story. These people should be prosecuted and jailed. Instapundit has more. Yes, Democrats should be asked at every opportunity if they support this sort of thing. Because many of them do. Force them to admit it, or lie and deny it. But make a big deal out of it either way.
And I agree with Kevin Williamson — this is a clear violation of the Klan Act of 1871.
“Green” Fracking
…from a new fluid.
This is far from a mature technology.
Space Dangers
Jeff Foust isn’t very impressed with an expensive new book.
The Moon And Mars
…are technically and financially feasible.
But not the way NASA and Congress want to do it.
In Search Of The White Male Voter
Elizabeth Price Foley points out the dangerous divisive game that the Democrats are playing.
Obeying The Law
…for people to want to obey the law for reasons that go beyond avoiding punishment, several things have to be true. First, they must generally approve of the law: Maybe not of every individual provision, but they have to believe that, in general, the laws are just rather than unfair. Second, they have to feel reasonably confident that most others will obey the law, too: People like to feel like good citizens, but they don’t like to feel like suckers. Finally, they have to feel as if the people in charge also respect the law. Examples are set at the top, and if the government treats unwelcome laws as unworthy of respect, you can expect the populace to feel the same way.
Nonsense. Laws are for the little people.
California
…is so over:
…we are producing a California that is the polar opposite of Pat Brown’s creation. True, it has some virtues: greener, cleaner, and more “progressive” on social issues. But it’s also becoming increasingly feudal, defined by a super-affluent coastal class and an increasingly impoverished interior. As water prices rise, and farms and lawns are abandoned, there’s little thought about how to create a better future for the bulk of Californians. Like medieval peasants, millions of Californians have been force[d] to submit to the theology of our elected high priest and his acolytes, leaving behind any aspirations that the Golden State can work for them too.
I don’t know what it will take to break the back of this destructive aristocracy.
[Monday-morning update]
Jerry Brown’s Oedipal struggle.
[Bumped]
When Did America…
As commenters note there, it became pretty clear it had happened in 2008, but generations of indoctrination, from K-12 through academia, have brought us to this point.