Category Archives: Media Criticism

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Don’t Know Much About History

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So much for “experts” on the American presidents.

One of the things that I find infuriating is the worship of bill passing, as though the only job of presidents and Congresses is to pass bills, completely ignoring whether or not the legislation is good, or terrible. Biden’s touted “accomplishments” are the passage of disastrous legislation (when it’s not unconsitutionally ignoring Congress altogether to do terrible things).

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor

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No, he’s no hero.

[Sunday-morning update]

His chaplain says that his action was “cowardly.”

[Afternoon update]

Walz dodged the Sunday shows as though it was a deployment, while Vance was all over them. If Walz survives the convention, the debates will be devastating to him.

[Monday-morning update]

Reminder: Tim Walz was a covid tyrant.

[Bumped]

[Update a while later]

The elite capture of Tim Walz. Now that Biden is losing his usefulness, the CCP has to replace him with someone.

[Tuesday-morning update]

[Bumped]

[Update a few minutes later]

Walz’s latest lie about his relationship with a Hitler-worshiping Muslim cleric.

Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Safe Is Not An Option

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Thoughts on flight rationale from Wayne Hale.

[Update a few minutes later]

OK, now I see why Wayne wrote that:

As NASA is working to balance all of these risks—the risk to crew on board Starliner, the risk of an uncrewed departure to the ISS, the risk to astronauts on board the space station, and more — Boeing has been lobbying to bring Starliner home with crew. Although NASA and Boeing engineers have yet to identify a root cause for the failure of the thrusters, Boeing has been urging NASA to accept “flight rationale” as a substitute. That is, Boeing believes it has provided enough data to NASA to be confident the thrusters will not fail in a catastrophic manner.

Boeing seems willing to risk the lives of the astronauts to save the vehicle. I don’t personally think it’s worth saving. I wonder what Boeing’s new CEO thinks?