Someone should write a book about this, with regard to spaceflight. Oh, wait.
Category Archives: History
It Should Be Safe To Be Unpopular
Thoughts on the woke religion and libertarianism.
What If All The Presidents
…were comic-book villains?
[Update a few minutes later]
Russia’s Space Program
…is in big trouble.
My biggest fear is that if they can’t play in the sandbox, they’ll crap in it, which they are perfectly capable of doing. It’s always much easier to destroy than create, which is what they’ve been doing in Ukraine.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, link is there now.
WW II And The Red Army
Myths exposed. A long but interesting history.
Revisionism
After years of embracing it, the Left is now trying to separate itself from “woke,” now that normal people are recognizing its toxicity.
They always have to relabel when their terrible ideas catch up with them, just as they stole the word “liberal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Quit pretending you don’t know what “woke” means.
The Byzantines
Are we them?
The parallels are disturbing.
How We Forgot Pol Pot
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
Who Is Running America?
People who weren’t elected.
The Department Of Homeland Insecurity
It’s two decades old, and it’s past time to abolish it.
I thought it was a terrible idea at the time.