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Category Archives: Political Commentary
On Putin’s Speech
Some initial thoughts from Blake Powers, who seems to be continuing to recover from the lightning strike.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Lawrence Person.
Ukraine Thoughts And Trends
An interesting assessment of the current situation.
The Coming Russian “Mobilization”
Environmentalism
…is a fundamentalist religion.
Yup.
The Student-Loan Disaster Continues
Thoughts on the perversity of the incentives.
History Taught Backwards
…and the educational crisis.
I think that our educational system lies at the heart of all of our other problems. We can’t expect to get good leadership when the people who vote for them are so ill informed.
Surprise, Surprise
We now know that Danchenko was a paid witness for the FBI.
OK, some of us knew that a long time ago.
Bill Nelson 2.0
First he called cost-plus contracts a “plague” on the agency, and now he’s praising SpaceX (while pretending that he wasn’t one of the “poo pooers” himself, who told Lori to “get her boy Elon in line”). And I love this:
“When there was the beginning of the space cargo and crew [programs], the two serious bidders were SpaceX and Boeing, and everybody poo-pooed SpaceX and said, ‘Oh, Boeing is a legacy company,'” Nelson said. “Well, guess who is about to make its sixth flight after its first test flight with astronauts, and guess who’s still on the ground?”
That’s got to leave a mark.
The Rice Speech
Today is the sixtieth anniversary. I wrote this on the fortieth anniversary, and it holds up pretty well, I think. “Because it is hard” is a dumb reason to do something.