Statistics that show it’s better to have one than not are misleading and fraudulent. It matters a lot more what kind of degree you get than whether or not you get one. But federal policy, and media propaganda ignores this.
Category Archives: Economics
Congress Fiddles With Monster Rockets
…while human spaceflight burns. My latest thoughts on our Congressional space-policy follies, over at PJMedia.
[Afternoon update]
As usual with space pieces, the comments over there are painfully ignorant.
Paul Ehrlich
Razid Khan has a defense of him. But not a very robust one. As I noted to Razid on Twitter, while we are certainly capable of extincting ourselves, it won’t be from resource depletion.
To Mars
This effort would require four launches of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, which is currently in development and is scheduled to make its maiden flight in 2018.
The purpose of my Kickstarter is to show how it could be done, faster, cheaper, with more people.
Fusion Power
A new concept. New to me, anyway.
Executive Amnesty
Terrific–so the President can take executive action that not only transforms individuals whom our law classifies as “deportable” into “not deportable,” he can simultaneously confer upon them multiple benefits, including work permits and now, tax refunds, which will be funded by law-abiding individuals who are present in the country legally.
Fundamentally transforming America!
Treating The Obese Like Smokers?
The worst thing about this piece is this:
Americans are fat because we eat large portions, and because we eat foods that are high in sugar and fat. Americans are fat because we eat large portions, and because we eat foods that are high in sugar and fat. Perhaps it’s time for the surgeon general to put scary warning labels on sugary and fatty foods.
That is a profoundly ignorant statement, nutrition wise. People don’t get fat from eating fat
The Kludgeocratic Bureaucracy
Is the solution massive civil disobedience?
I think it will come to that in California, for sure. The new water rules are asinine and intrusive.
Climate Change
…has done more good than harm, and will likely continue to do so.
For Bernie Sanders
It seems unlikely he’s capable of learning.