Category Archives: Political Commentary

Keep Cars, But Don’t Make People Drive Them

An alternate, and more realistic version of the Green Leap Forward.

Two points: I fear the day that we won’t be allowed to drive, except in special circumstances (like amusement parks).

Point Two: I suspect that a lot of current auto traffic will move to the air, with the advent of Urban Air Mobility, particularly if the vehicles can be powered from the ground (e.g., Jeff Greason’s and Dan DeLong’s Electric Sky is working on such a concept). Airbus has an interesting concept of moving passengers via passenger modules that are moved from one vehicle type to another, like cargo containers, in which you’d share a pod with people from your door to an aircraft, to a long-range aircraft, to another aircraft, to the other door. That’s a lot more interesting and flexible concept than high-speed rail.

The Democrat’s Omar Problem

[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.

[Bumped]

[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.

[Friday-morning update]

Mission success.

[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

is acting left behind.

It’s not really acting. They have been left behind.

But, while I like Sandy, this kind of thing continues to drive me crazy.