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Category Archives: Media Criticism
We Are All Overconfident Idiots
Some useful thoughts on epistemology and psychology, in the context of climate science.
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Related: Climate change in the land of Gruber/Obama, and Gaia as the opiate of the masses.
Scott Walker
I had a beer with Stephen Fleming a few months ago, and we were discussing potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. We both agreed that the Wisconsin governor should be a leading contender. Rich Cromwell agrees:
Does Walker sizzle? Not exactly. Is he a particularly charismatic speaker? No, he isn’t. But does he sit upon a throne made of the skulls of his enemies? Yes, yes he does.
Heh.
Commercial Spaceflight’s Terrible Last Week Of October
My thoughts on what it all means, over at PJMedia, with some bonus @ISPCS coverage and history.
Sat Fat Resistance Continues To Crumble
This is a pretty significant paper, considering the author.
The Asteroid Retrieval Mission
Lee Billings describes the ARM policy mess.
It’s a mission they came up with for an overpriced, non-existent and unnecessary rocket looking for a mission. And note this rationale:
She and other NASA officials note that the advanced propulsion required for ARM would be enabling technology for a broad range of future missions and that ARM would be a crucial test for many deep-space activities crucial for someday reaching Mars. And it would do all this while keeping astronauts sufficiently close to home so that if something goes wrong, they could attempt an emergency return to Earth.
Safety is the highest priority.
Airline Travel Tips
From an apparent idiot. Hard to tell if she’s serious, or if this is a parody.
Valerie Jarrett
A link roundup.
But here’s what I find interesting. If you read through Scheiber’s piece, there’s a word that doesn’t appear in it: Iran. That is, her place of birth (she reportedly grew up speaking Persian as a child). Does no one really think this influence is one of the reasons he seems so eager to do business with the mullahs?
You Can Keep Your Plan And Your Doctor
An ObamaCare architect freely admits they had to lie to the voters to get the law passed. They assume that the voters are stupid, with some basis, since they continue to get re-elected. So it’s a shock to them when the ones who really care and know what’s going on show up at the polls, as they did last week.
Interstellar
Peter Suderman reviews his review.
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And here‘s John Nolte’s review.
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Five reasons why Interstellar is a conservative film.
I think that it helps to view it as allegorical, and not try to take the science too seriously.
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