No, libertarian does not mean “pro-corporate.”
This kind of ignorance is why so much reporting is nonsensical — reporters are always surprised when an economic report “unexpectedly” has bad numbers, because they really believe the Keynesian crap.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Forget Syria
We need to neutralize Iran:
It is unseemly and stupid for Washington to remonstrate with the Russians for playing the spoiler in Syria, for example by providing the Assad regime with attack helicopters. The way to deal with this dog is to beat up the dog’s owner, namely Tehran. Washington’s pathetic display of solicitude towards a terrorist regime that uses negotiations to buy time for nuclear weapons development aggravates every other problem in the region, Syria above all.
Yup.
Abandon Ship!
The AFL-CIO rats are running down the lines of the S.S. Obama.
Broadcasting Political Sympathies
…with SSIDs?
Actually, if you care about your wireless security, you’ll turn SSID broadcast off on the router.
Remember How The Wisconsin Recall Was Good News For Obama?
Nope.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
Hard to see a path to victory for him if he loses Wisconsin.
[Afternoon update]
The GOP is born again, in Wisconsin. Most people aren’t aware that the state is the birthplace of the party.
Perestroika
Is it coming to California?
We can only hope. The question is, is Jerry Brown Gorbachev in that scenario, or Andropov?
The Higher-Education Bubble
Why it will be worse than the housing bubble:
Once again government has created the conditions for wholesale failure, and failure is upon us.
From 1976 to 2010, the prices of all commodities rose 280 percent. The price of homes rose 400 percent. Private education? A whopping 1,000 percent.
In the end, this bubble will be worse than the last. Even when homeowners got hopelessly behind on their mortgages, two options helped. First, they could declare bankruptcy and free themselves of their crippling debt; second, they could sell their houses to pay down most of their loans.
Students don’t have either of these options. It’s illegal to absolve student loan debt through bankruptcy, and you can’t sell back an education.
I hope that it has a disproportionate effect on the academic left. In a sane world, the first thing to go would be diversity programs, with “studies” departments hard on their heels.
Commercialization Of Human Exploration
If I were in DC, I’d attend this event on the Hill on Friday. But in my experience, space historians won’t necessarily do a good job of extrapolating into the future, particularly when it comes to technological trends.
Well, He Can Still Fall Back On The Al Green Thing
So it turns out that one of the few things that Obama seemed to be actually good it, isn’t. He sux at basketball, too.
We’re In Reach Of The Goal
We are less than two grand from the goal for the space-safety Kickstarter project. I have an offer from a potential donor to match the next thousand that comes in, which means that the rest of you only have to contribute a thousand on your own over the next two and a half days to get it home. Please, have at it.