Some good ideas about how to reform colleges and universities going forward. It’s a shame that it took all this economic destruction to make it happen, but it will be a good outcome.
Category Archives: Economics
Hacksawing The Economy
How the lock downs are in the tradition of Civil War surgeons.
[Late-afternoon update]
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Madness Of Crowds
Starship On The Moon
Bob Zubrin has a different idea.
Elon chose methane because he was thinking Mars, but absent finding significant deposits of lunar carbon, LOX/Hydrogen is probably a better propellant for lunar ops.
Why Hospitals Are In Trouble
The current conventional wisdom is that they’re hurting because of the ban on “elective” procedures, but it turns out that most admissions are caused by the entertainment industry (restaurants and bars). Shut down all the purveyors of alcohol and food poisoning, and the beds are empty.
Patricia cut my hair last weekend with a Wahl electric clipper that I’d bought for ten bucks at Ross years ago, but we’d never used. She overdid it, and I look like I’m ready for boot camp, but she’d probably do better with practice and learning how to use it. I’ve heard Jesse Watters describe how his wife had learned to cook, and now I’m wondering how many of us will go back to paying other people to cut our hair and cook for us, now that we’ve figured out we can actually do it ourselves? Of course, I’ve never been a big restaurant goer, for reasons I’ve discussed several times here: the cost, and the nutrition. I’ve probably been affected by this as little as anyone.
NASA’s “Comically Big Moon Rocket”
How it’s coming along. There’s nothing funny about the cost, though.
A Quieting Sun
Are we headed for a new little ice age? There is no scientific reason to think it won’t happen.
Cheap energy and free markets fuel wealth creation. Fossil fuels are the cheapest form of energy currently, for both electricity and transportation.
The California GOP
Has Lorena Gonzales revived it?
That would be nice. Particularly if it can come back in a less useless form than has been the case for the past three decades, since Pete Wilson.
Facemasks
Pose serious health risk to the healthy.
It’s definitely a bad idea to exercise wearing one.
The infuriating thing about this is the inability of some people to understand that there are no risk-free actions, or to accuse people who think that destroying the economy is sort of a bad idea of wanting grandma to die. They act like children.
[Update early afternoon]
The uncertainties of mask use demand that no one be forced to wear them.
Biden And China
Electing him would cede the world to it.
It certainly appears that way. As the man said, Biden has been wrong on almost every foreign-policy issue for decades.
[Friday-morning update]
He’s not the best politician that money can buy, but he’s what they have.
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