It’s coming back to theaters. This is the first time in a generation, at least.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Space Balls
Interstellar style.
Nuevo Colorado
Continuing our tour of the six new Californias proposed by Tim Draper, this new state would be the only one with no Pacific coastline. Nonetheless, it has tremendous potential that is currently being hamstrung by Sacramento (or rather, the coastal voters who dominate the legislature). It would have a population of a little over four million, equivalent to Kentucky, and about a million fewer than Colorado. But as I’ll explain, its red depiction on the map below is appropriate, because it could be viewed as another Colorado in the making, except one only a couple-hour drive from the ocean.
Being Bullied As A Geeky Kid
Good advice, from Annalee Newitz.
Slippery Rock Versus Mercyhurst
The big game, in the Big House.
The crowd always cheered in the stadium when the Slippery Rock score was announced. It’s a long-standing Michigan tradition.
Social Media And Friendship
Some interesting sociological results. I find the word “friend” for Facebook acquaintances annoying.
Technopessimism
Virginia Postrel takes on Neil Stephenson and Peter Thiel. I agree with her.
Mars One
An independent analysis from MIT.
Bottom line: not ready for prime time.
Superpowers
Here are eight coming soon (maybe), via technology.
The Collapse Of The Obama Presidency
Don’t let this crisis go to waste:
Are the young struck by the dashed hopes of Obamacare? Give them a copy of Friedrich Hayek’s The Fatal Conceit. They can’t believe the Secret Service farce? Introduce them to James Q. Wilson on bureaucracy. They’re befuddled by the exploitation of an unfortunate incident in Ferguson? Have them read Edward C. Banfield’s The Unheavenly City (especially the chapter he titled “Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit”). Liberalism’s domestic policies aren’t working quite the way they were supposed to? Acquaint them with Irving Kristol: “I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.”
Similarly, we should be running ads telling them that “We told you so.”