…are considering suicide.
I never considered suicide in college (or at any time in my life). I may have missed the signs, but I am unaware of anyone I knew who did so. But that was four decades ago. I think it’s a sign that too many young people are going to college. And they’re paying too damn much for it.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been seventeen years. Glenn Reynolds has some links and thoughts. Yes, Barack Obama was feckless, but part of the reason we got him was due to the fecklessness of George Bush, and the mismanagement of Iraq. I thought at the time the administration had a strategic plan for the Middle East, but I was wrong.
[Update a while later]
…that Trump may declassify this week.
THis is probably the Deep State’s worst nightmare. Except they’ll come out in the middle of possibly the greatest hurricane in American history, in terms of property damage. But they will remain declassified all the way through the elections.
It’s a 19th-century solution for a 21st-century problem. Most of the takes on this have been idiotic, but this is a good one. I’d note though, per the end, it’s not a choice between a Space Corps/Force or Space Guard. We need both.
Like me, Byron York remembers the 90s, the Clinton administration, and the Chinese government. But that was different because shut up.
The reach of the Clinton’s is long.
If you have forty minutes or so, watch Nina Teicholz.
Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed with the Armstrong movie.
[Update late evening, before I drive up to West Palm Beach to pick up Patricia]
Some (sadly) hilarious thoughts and links from Jim Treacher.
[Sunday update]
OK, I see that Bob Zimmerman has had second thoughts.
I’m going to reserve judgment until I see the film. I think that the proximate cause of the uproar wasn’t the decision to leave out the flag planting, but the Canadian actor’s idiotic explanation of it. As I note in comments, the movie is a biopick of Neil Armstrong, not a history of Apollo, and his great achievement was not in planting a flag on the moon, but in simply being present on its surface.
I could never understand why the Bush administration let Iran get away with so much. They were waging war on us (and have been since 1979), and the administration did essentially nothing. And then Obama came along and bent us over for them and didn’t even ask for lube. Thanks, Valerie!