Is there anything it didn’t wreck?
A lot of us warned about this at the time.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Fox News
How the New York Times took a swing at it, and missed.
I suspect that Trump-Derangement Syndrome is strongly correlated with Fox-News-Derangement Syndrome.
[Update a few minutes later]
It’s long, but if you don’t want to read all the details, be sure to jump to the last few grafs.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Ask your doctor if constant outrage is right for you.
The Food Supply
Red tape continues to need cutting. Food labeling remains stupid, particularly in terms of calorie counting. And Schumer continues to be a derriere fedora.
Space Startups And The Plague
Rick Tumlinson has a pretty good op-ed.
The FDA Strikes Again
People with Apple watches could be monitoring their oxygen levels, but the regulators require that the ability be disabled for users. This is classic regulatory capture by the industry.
Recurring Infections
The bad news is that WHO says that there is no evidence that getting an infection prevents a recurrence. The good news is that WHO has not been a particularly reliable source of information.
[Update a while later]
They’ve retracted:
Effects Of Lockdown
Two California doctors say that it doesn’t reduce the number of deaths.
Of course, since they’re not from coastal California, they’re not really California doctors.
Space Resources
Glenn told me a few days ago that he was working on a piece for the Journal. It’s up now (but paywalled). He has an excerpt.
[Friday update]
Chris Johnson, of the Secure World Foundation, has a long disquisition explaining the background and purpose of the Executive Order.
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[Update Sunday morning]
Another take from Professor Michelle Hanlon. And a longer-than-necessary one from Dimitra Stefoudi.
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Good Riddance
Looks like they opened the box, and the fat little dictator is dead.
Unfortunately, no reason to think that whoever replaces him will be better.
States
…should not receive bankruptcy protection.
Cocaine Mitch should offer states a bailout of their pensions, only on condition that they no longer be states, and become territories, pending better behavior in the future. And the sensible parts of them, like downstate Illinois, should be able to petition for readmission immediately.