Category Archives: Business

Soft Totalitarianism

The Sovietization of American culture.

[Update a few minutes later]

A conservative pretends that there is allowable debate in America.

[Update late morning]

Black Lives Matter must be beyond criticism. Professor Jacobson is clearly guilty of wrongthink.

[Update Friday morning]

We refuse mob rule.

Kurt Schlichter certainly refuses to bow before them.

Get Woke

Go depopulated. Almost twenty percent of Minneapolis real estate has gone on the market in the last week. Though, to be fair, this could just be a combination of a summer uptick, and pent-up supply from months of shutdown in which it was hard to do a real-estate transaction.

But if it’s due to rioting, I suspect this will be the fate of a lot of cities in the coming months and years, including Seattle. I suspect our home value will hold up, though. Always going to be demand to live near the beach in LA County.

Elon To SpaceX Employees

“Starship is the top priority.

I think he feels pretty confident now that his situation with NASA is secure. And it probably is. They really have no choice going forward, at least until Boeing is flying, and even then they will want to have two systems, because they know that the notion of using Orion for ISS support is farcical.

[Update Monday morning]

[Tuesday-afternoon update]

More thoughts and SpaceX news from Bob Zimmerman.

Yes, NASA’s willingness to accept used rockets and capsules is a huge sea change.

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