Thoughts from Wretchard on their reactionary attempts to return to the past.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
One In Five College Students
…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.
The Anniversary
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]
The Secret Documents
…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.
The Need For A Space Force
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.
When A Foreign Power Meddled In A Election
Like me, Byron York remembers the 90s, the Clinton administration, and the Chinese government. But that was different because shut up.
Another Arkancide?
The reach of the Clinton’s is long.
Science In Academia
The Nutrition Scam
If you have forty minutes or so, watch Nina Teicholz.
Planting The American Flag On The Moon
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.