Compare and contrast. This is why NASA human spaceflight is a mess.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
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.
A Civil War
Is America already in one? In many ways, yes. It’s a Cold Civil War (for now), but one regardless.
“We’re At The Barnstorming Phase”
An interview about our future in space with Jeff Bezos.
He doesn’t really say anything that I haven’t been preaching for literally decades, but it’s nice to see that (finally) someone with money gets it.
The Gun-Control Debate
Why the Left won’t win it.
Of course, part of the problem is that, as with climate change, they think there is no room for debate. Neither side does. But one side is right.
Freeman Dyson
“We don’t understand climate.”
He’s not wrong.
[Update late morning]
Is climate change like an asteroid, or diabetes? I’d say neither, but to the limited degree that it’s an understood problem, diabetes is a much better analogy.
Animal Farm
How it’s playing out in the Democrat Party. I wonder if AOC has even read it? Or if she has, if she understood the allegory, or just thought it was a strange story about farm animals?
[Update a while later]
How awful it must be to be a thinking person in a modern “university.”
The Security-Clearance Process
…is about to get a long-overdue overhaul for the 21st century. It takes too long, and costs too much. I haven’t had a clearance in over a quarter of a century, and lack of one has probably limited my income opportunities.
A “True Conservative”
What does one look like? It’s sure as hell not Radio Free Tom.