Will it make us rich?
Dennis Wingo responds:
Yes, it’s impossible to predict the effects of drops in the price of previously-rare commodities. Gold is a very useful industrial metal, and this would expand its usage.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Saying “Triggered”
No, New York Times, it will not turn your kid into a Nazi.
Beta O’Dourke’s Pluralism Failure
Let’s hope that the Democrats suffer at the polls over this. It’s totalitarianism, straight up.
Rednecks
How they saved Hollywood.
I don’t know how you can talk about this topic without discussing The Outlaw Josie Wales. Also, the term goes all they back to England, resulting from the red collars that Presbyterians wore.
Elizabeth Warren’s Pregnancy Story
#ProTip to those bereft of logic. It is possible, and not logically inconsistent, to believe both that some women get fired for being pregnant, and that Warren is making it up in her particular case.
“We Are In A Permanent Coup”
Says Matt Taibbi.
I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime.
California’s Planned Blackouts
Jim Meigs explains.
I just read that they’re cutting power to the Berkeley campus, which could be a disaster for researchers who need to keep things in the fridge, if they don’t have backup generators.
And you know what isn’t the problem? Climate change. Or at least not anthropogenic climate change. Drought is the natural state of affairs for the place. The 20th century was unusually wet, and a lot of policy decisions were made on the assumption that this was a normal state of affairs.
We’re on So Cal Edison, not PG&E, but we’ve heard that SCE might be planning the same thing. Unclear if we’ll be affected if they do.
[Update Saturday morning]
Californians learn that solar panels don’t work during power blackouts. More policy idiocy, and they’re compounding it by requiring every new home to have them. I can’t believe the state I’ve lived in for four decades, with such an innovative history, has become so effing stupid.
[Bumped]
San Francisco
I’m planning to go to the Foresight Vision Weekend next month, but I am not looking forward to going into the city.
[Monday-morning update]
An interview with Heather McDonald. San Francisco’s government is insane.
The New G-File
Jonah is back, with thoughts on lots of things, but most bitingly on fascist Beta O’Dourke.
Male Infertility
Caused by vegetable oils?
Not a problem for me at this stage of my life, but there are lots of reasons to avoid vegetable oils.