Thanks for the birthday wishes. Here is what I wrote in 2010 about Challenger.
[Update a while later]
On the thirtieth anniversary, there were still lessons to be learned. In fact, many remain to be learned today, on the thirty-seventh.
Category Archives: Business
Free The Meat
Yes, it’s ridiculous that we can’t get affordable venison at restaurants or the grocery.
Los Angeles
…has become a predator’s paradise.
The solution to this is to legalize prostitution, and re-outlaw streetwalking, and pimping. Like drug dealers, the pimps are empowered by the illegality.
The Assault Of Environmentalism
[Update a few minutes later]
Here come the bugs. We’ll own nothing, eat insects, and like it.
American Nomenklatura
What the Twitter files showed. An interesting history of content moderation.
The Stranglehold Of Public-Employee Unions
Thoughts on how to end it.
Artificial Gravity
Last week’s Beyond Earth Institute seminar is on line.
The California Dream
How it became a nightmare.
I wanted to move to California ever since I was a kid in Michigan, and a few decades ago, I did. I still love the climate and the scenery, but the government, in both the coastal cities and Sacramento, is becoming more disastrous by the year.
Spying Televisions
Some advice on how to stop it. But I’m surprised that she doesn’t provide the simplest solution, which is what I do: Don’t give it your wifi password. The assumption seems to be here that you are using the “smart” features of the television, but I just use mine for a video monitor.
Crazy Idea
Colorblindness isn’t racist.
The only people who believe that it is are lunatics.