…punctured. A new paper from Judith Curry.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Hammer Drops
The administration is proposing ending Gateway, and SLS/Orion after Artemis III. That’s still two flights too many, but it all has yet to play out.
[Afternoon update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
[Sunday-morning update]
Speaking of Bob Zimmerman, he’s less than impressed with Lockheed Martin’s delivery of the first crew-capable Orion.
[Bumped]
Getting History Right
I remember when The Battle of Britain came out, as a young adolescent. I went to see it at least twice, maybe three times. I had the hots for Susannah York. I also had written a term paper about it.
“I Don’t Mean To Brag”
“…but I didn’t go to Harvard.“
My alma mater in Ann Arbor hasn’t exactly been covering itself in glory, either.
David Horowitz
Thoughts On The Path Forward
I guess I should follow up with the main point: Once you explicitly accept that you're going to use multiple launches to get back to the Moon, it opens up the trade space for lots of different architectures. If NASA doesn't already have a tiger team doing trade studies to present…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 28, 2025
The White House Correspondence Dinner
Fake remorse over Biden-reporting lies.
Arabs
Why do they chop off hands?
It’s strongly related to the reason they lie about the history of Israel. And stupid leftists in the west buy it.
Losers Gotta Lose
Thoughts on the Canadian electoral disaster, from Mark Steyn.
Public Health’s Sacrificial Lambs
This is a deep, deep problem. I hope it’s not intractable. Jay Battacharya has a heavy lift. The way so many used the pandemic to seize power over the lives of others reminds me a lot of the climate scam.
[Afternoon update]
A thing we don't talk about enough is how bad the CDC guidance was for opening things up during Covid
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 27, 2025
Read the details! It was insanely unrealistic but was used by states to act in very insane wayshttps://t.co/Ona38iTQXI