Jonah’s latest “news” letter.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Captain Marvel
Treacher has a round up of all the misogyny in the reviews. Because obviously, if you think the flick is a stinker, you hate women.
[Noon update]
What you’ve all been waiting for: The vital review from The Babylon Bee.
[Friday update]
OK, here’s Sonny Bunch’s. The movie sounds like a real stinker.
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The Democrat’s Omar Problem
"You can't say 'all lives matter' when we say black lives matter! That's raciss!" — some people
"We can't condemn anti-Semitism without condemning all the 'ism's!" — same people
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 7, 2019
[Afternoon update]
The Democrats’ resolution on anti-Semitism has gone from impotent to totally worthless. I have to confess to going through a lot of popcorn watching the latest racist meltdown of the Left.
[Friday-morning update]
The old Democrat Party is new again:
I think we have crossed a Rubicon of sorts. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the Congressional Black Caucus–which supported Omar unanimously, as best one can tell from news reports–are in the driver’s seat. Anti-Semitism is now accepted by the Democratic Party.
Nothing new, really. The Klan hated Jews, too.
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[Update a few minutes later]
“If hating Israel is wrong, we don’t want to be right.”
[Update a few more minutes later]
Anti-Semitism: It’s all the rage.
[Update a few more minutes later]
An inflection point in American history. Plus this.
Over the past couple of decades, the Democrats have been quite deliberately assembling a coalition containing a lot of antisemites. It is thus unsurprising that the party is becoming openly antisemitic.
American Jews have largely identified with the immigrants the Democrats have sought to encourage, seeing them as akin to their ancestors who fled to America. In fact, they’re more like the people those ancestors were fleeing from.
Fascists gonna fascist.
And more links over at Instapundit.
[Update late morning]
Omar and her allies won this battle.
[Update a few minutes later]
The clarity accompanying the takeover of the House by Democrats.
I can viscerally understand the Never Trump motivation, but I have been shaking my head at insanity from former conservatives in thinking that putting the Democrats in charge wouldn’t be diving into the fire from the frying pan.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaaaand (once again) Paul Krugman beclowns himself.
The Real Pucker Factor
For Dragon, it will be early tomorrow morning, when it enters and is recovered.
If Crew Dragon lands (waters?) successfully tomorrow, the U.S. will clearly have human spaceflight capability again. If NASA chooses not to use it immediately, that's a choice, but the notion that we can't get Americans into space from American soil will no longer be true.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
[Friday-morning update]
Congratulations, @SpaceX, for what appears to be a flawless test flight. Time to fly now, and flip Putin (and Rogozin) the bird.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 8, 2019
[Noon update]
What SpaceX’s success means for America.
Eating Healthy
Yes, it’s possible to do it on a budget. The problem with this is that the USDA guidelines are terrible:
The menus offered a variety of food, didn’t have processed foods, were affordable and didn’t require always require cooking to prepare. Each menu also had manageable portions of food without high fat or salt content.
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with high fat or salt content, as long as the fat isn’t seed oils.
Roscosmos
It’s not really acting. They have been left behind.
But, while I like Sandy, this kind of thing continues to drive me crazy.
Oh, Sandy. Is there anyone out there who thinks it's at all important to end our dependence on Putin to get our astronauts into space? https://t.co/dv1IhziJQc
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 7, 2019
The Most Politically Intolerant Americans
They’re not “the deplorables.” They’re the urban highly “educated” (scare quotes because they aren’t really educated, just credentialed) whites who deplore them. So I guess that’s the real white privilege.
Two NASA Directorates
Compare and contrast. This is why NASA human spaceflight is a mess.
Schools Of Education
They remain a disaster, that should have been abolished long ago.
As a report on education said almost four decades ago, if a foreign power had imposed on the U.S. the educational system we've imposed on ourselves, we would rightly consider it an act of war. https://t.co/rpg0ym3yEh
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 6, 2019
BTW, I highly recommend Quillette as a web site in general. Claire and others have a lot of smart, heterodox stuff there.
British Columbia
…has gone transgender nuts. I hope the father wins in the Supreme Court of Canada.