Lauren Southern explains capitalism to a moron.
My theory is that the guys like the shooters because it’s like hunting, and the women like Pacman because it’s gathering. With many exceptions, of course.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
A Patriot, Not A Partisan
Is Jim Webb getting ready for an independent run?
I noted on Twitter yesterday that I’d like to see a five-way race between Trump, Hillary, Webb, Sanders, and a real Republican.
[Update a few minutes hater]
Fun. Michael Bay is coming out with a movie about Benghazi, just in time for primary season.
New Lunar Fiction
I’ll have to check this out, and see if it really does beat TMIAHM. Out Heinleining Heinlein is quite the claim.
Merry Christmas, Everyone
And as a gift to my readers, a roundup by Judith Curry of Christmas-related climate humor. And note this in comments from her: “Mann is insane if that is what he pulled from my testimony. Oops, prob. not insane, just agenda driven.”
A Rocket Launch
NASA’s launches always have been as well, but in a different way. This was more of a popular culture event. Let’s hope we see a lot more of them.
Erin Esurance
This is pretty funny. How an insurance company lost its mascot to Internet porn.
Feminists And Science Fiction
Star Wars proves they’re clueless about it.
Of course, #Gamergate has been demonstrating that for many months.
Childhood’s End
David Brin is remembering Arthur C. Clarke.
“The 1%” “Escaping” To Mars
A dumb piece at Newsweek.
On the other hand, here’s a smart piece from Eric Berger: We’re going back to the moon, with or without NASA. Absent a major change of attitude in Congress, probably without.
About Donald Trump
Mollie Hemingway hates everybody. I agree.
[Update a while later]
“Choose the form of your destructor“:
People who are unhappy with the things Trump is saying need to understand that he’s only getting so much traction because he’s filling a void. If the responsible people would talk about these issues, and take action, Trump wouldn’t take up so much space.
And there’s a lesson for our ruling class there: Calling Trump a fascist is a bit much (fascism, as Tom Wolfe once reported, is forever descending upon the United States, but somehow it always lands on Europe), but movements like fascism and communism get their start because the mechanisms of liberal democracy seem weak and ineffectual and dishonest. If you don’t want Trump — or, perhaps, some post-Trump figure who really is a fascist — to dominate things, you need to stop being weak and ineffectual and dishonest.
They can’t help it. It’s who they are. It’s what they do.