…at protests and demonstrations.
I’m back from Orlando, but catching up.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
40 Years On
I’ve been busy with the conference, compounded by the fact that I brought the wrong mouse with me for the laptop, so light posting. But it’s worth noting the anniversary of the loss of Challenger. Which is also (as always) my birthday.
On The Apparent News Of The Day
I remain adamant in my lack of opinion about what happened in Minneapolis this morning in the absence of better information.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) January 24, 2026
Lawyers
How they destroyed practical adult education.
The Largest Wealth Flight In History
Congratulations, California.
Poor Hitler
He’s discovered his new followers:
Hitler reacts to the new generation of Nazis pic.twitter.com/ihZR66rEHf
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) January 19, 2026
A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran?
And by “mass,” I mean by the millions.
If the administration still intends to do something, I wonder what they have planned?
[Update a couple minutes later[
What can’t the Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
Starfleet Academy
We’ve been sort-of enjoying “Strange New Worlds, the prequel to TOS, but this looks awful. They don’t have GLP-1s in the 21st century?
[Update a while later]
Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.
[Late-morning update]
I watched 24 minutes of "Starfleet Academy" before I turned it off.
— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) January 15, 2026
I stopped it when the fat Klingon Jem'Hadar lady started verbally abusing the black male kid and the Klingon male kid.
Before that, there was a lot of talk about how people are hungry and have to steal food -…
[Early-afternoon update]
Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu
— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026
A Lawsplainer On Minneapolis
It’s not even a close call.
The Crew On Artemis II
Bob Zimmerman says to take them off the flight.
NASA would never allow SpaceX to do something like this.
But it’s a tremendous waste of money either way.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Eric Berger reports on a meeting at NASA to discuss the issue. Jared owns it now.
[Bumped]
[Midnight update]
Charlie Camarda responds.