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Category Archives: Political Commentary
Seven Things That Kamala Harris Has Never Done
…that don’t bode well for her presidency.
She has also never served, but she’s not unique in that regard for recent presidents.
Jack Smith
“…is starting to make me think that Trump won in 2020.”
Dubious Medical Norms
Medicine is much less scientific than they would have you believe.
Fight The Gaslighting
Where No Woman Has Gone Before
It looks like Polaris Dawn is finally about to launch.
Everyone has noted that this will be the highest-altitude flight since Apollo, but all of the Apollo astronauts were men. Menon and Gillis will hold the altitude record for women after this, until a woman goes to the moon (which may or not be on Artemis, given the ongoing boondoggle).
Lord help us, the new cost estimate of NASA’s Mobile Launcher-2 project is now a mind-boggling $2.7 billion.https://t.co/KE7WZEtcQ5
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) August 27, 2024
[Update a while later]
Bob Zimmerman has thoughts on the latest SLS fiasco.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
I weep when I consider what *actual useful* space hardware we could have for $2.7B. https://t.co/USS3NwXBFx
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) August 27, 2024
“Boeing Workers Humiliated”
I can believe that there are upset workers, but it seems like shoddy journalism to just find one to speak for them.
Lack Of Self Awareness
This is a thing of beauty. And the background art is nice and subtle. pic.twitter.com/Uo0ORLT4T8
— Julie Frost–That Werewolf Writer🐺🦉 (@JulieCFrost) August 24, 2024
[Afternoon update]
Three former Democrats who had enough. pic.twitter.com/S3ISZqeKhU
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 24, 2024
Ukraine’s Invasion Of Russia
I agree that the most significant aspect of this is that there have still been no nukes. I wonder if Putin is concerned that either they’re no longer functional, or that he can’t trust his underlings to use them.
Kabul’s Child Sacrifice
On the third anniversary of the greatest foreign-policy debacle in decades, Cdr Salamander is still righteously angry.