Category Archives: Media Criticism

Another Artemis Delay

I wish that every time some politician (and Bill Nelson is definitely one of those) says that “Safety is the highest priority,” someone would ask them, “What is safe enough? When are you going to fly? How safe will it be then? If safety is the highest priority, why would you ever fly? Not flying is the only way to make safety the highest priority.”

What Next For Harvard?

Having Gay step down as president doesn’t solve the problem.

[Update a few minutes later]

A Gay fisking (cue whining from Paul in comments that he doesn’t like fisking, so he’s forewarned).

[Update a couple minutes later]

It occurs to me that one of the absurdities that the DEI religionists attempt to impose on normal people (successfully at places like the NYT and AP) is to capitalize “black” as though it is some special privileged status. How does one determine whether a person is worthy of such a prestigious designation? Is Rachel Dolezal? As with being a man or a woman, is it simply a matter of claiming one’s status?

I refuse.

[Update a while later]

Carol Swain’s attorney demands answers from Harvard.

Apropo of nothing, I had lunch with Carol Swain in the fall of 2020 in Omaha (same event where I met Jay Bhattacharya).

[Update a few more minutes later]

Claudine Gay and the great DEI grift.

[Late-morning update]

The real scandal of the Harvard/Gay affair.

Yes, the lengths they were willing to go in defending the indefensible (almost) solely because they couldn’t bring themselves to provide a “victory” to a political opponent is sort of amazing.