I didn’t think of the movie as one, but I did almost laugh out loud at parts of the book.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Democrats
How they lost the war for staying power.
They mistook the popularity of the (bewildering, and invisible to me) charisma of Obama for the power of their (lack of) ideas.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Barack Obama ain’t nobody special.
The Donald Meets Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
He’s going through all the stages of grief over his polling, though not necessarily in the right order.
Bill Keith
We’ve lost a musical legend. RIP
The Martian As Time Travel
It takes us back to our society half a century ago.
As I’ve said repeatedly, the part of the film that requires the most suspension of disbelief is that NASA would ever be sufficiently audacious and cost effective to send someone to Mars.
Football Physics
I’ve been proposing this for years. You could also put sensors in the feet and knees to determine in-bounds and when a player does down.
Milo Yiannopoulos
His terrifying allure. An interesting story by one of his feminist “adversaries.”
Appendix N
…you can’t get your childhood back. As someone in my early twenties when it came back, I was a lot less impressed than the kids at the time. After the duds that were Eps 1-3, I’ll probably wait for it to be free on television. Encouraging thoughts from David Brin on what he calls the “best year for space since the 70s.”Sorry, Star Wars Fans
Bootstrapping A Solar-System Civilization