Category Archives: Media Criticism
Will America Go To Space Again?
Bryan Preston is unduly pessimistic. The answer is yes, and hopefully in a couple weeks.
Fracking In Britain And Europe
How long will the Brits allow this kind of policy insanity to continue?
Discovery, We Hardly Knew Ye
I have some thoughts about the belated mourning of the Shuttle program, over at PJMedia.
Dog
It’s what’s for dinner.
I think it’s another campaign backfire by the Obamaites. They’re probably regretting picking on Romney about Seamus about now.
More Space Property Rights Commentary
It’s sort of turning into a telephone game, like this piece:
Simberg, an aerospace engineer, says a new law granting the United States conditional permission to claim extraterrestrial land is internationally legal. His view: failure of the 1979 Moon Treaty to get even one signature nullifies the Outer Space Treaty.
a) The Moon Treaty has fourteen countries who have acceded to it.
b) I didn’t say that the Moon Treaty’s failure nullifies the OST.
Other than that, they get it completely right.
Conduct Unbecoming
I have some thoughts on the Secret Service imbroglio, and presidential vetting, over at PJMedia.
A Sharp Rise In Retractions
And they wonder why conservatives and other sensible people don’t have faith in scientific institutions. As Glenn notes, all the government funding leads to corruption, and not just in the climate-change industrial complex.
Derb And Discourse
A long, but thoughtful post on the “racism” of John Derbyshire.
I continue to wonder if they cancer treatments have impaired his judgment.
Charles Stross On Amazon’s Business Model
In which he ignorantly bashes libertarians:
I’m not going to lecture you about Jeff Bezos either, although I do want to note that he came out of a hedge fund and he’s ostensibly a libertarian; these aspects of his background make me uneasy, because in my experience they tend to be found in conjunction with a social-darwinist ideology that has no time for social justice, compassion, or charity. (When you hear a libertarian talking about “disruption” and “innovation” what they usually mean is “opportunities to make a quick buck, however damaging the long-term side effects may be”. Watch for the self-serving cant and the shout-outs to abstractions framed in terms of market ideology.)
Emphasis mine. Jonah Goldberg, hit this guy with a cluebat.