The Economist has discovered El Segundo, including its history with SpaceX. It’s a primary reason I haven’t abandoned California yet.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Obnoxious Quotes Of 2025
John Hawkins has compiled a list of the thirty worst.
The Foresight Meme Prize
I saw this at Vision Weekend a week and a half ago.
Announcing: the winner of our $10K Meme Prize!
— Existential Hope (@HopeExistential) December 18, 2025
After reviewing almost 400 entries, we are thrilled to share that the winner of our Meme Prize is “Voices from 2099” by @JellyfishDAO! Their short video makes us see the present day through the eyes of a future society that has… pic.twitter.com/PsxrO1uPPi
John Varley
RIP.
I didn’t read everything he wrote, but Millenium was good.
Other Peoples’ Money
Thoughts from Roger Kimball on Mamdani’s “mandate.”
The End Of The Climate Cult?
Let’s hope. The economic damage this nonsense has caused is incalculable.
The Hollow Man
Thoughts on crime, happiness, free will, and robots.
Continental Intellectuals
Long, but interesting. Why it is perfectly safe to not take them seriously.
Unfortunately, this BS lies at the foundation of much of academia.
The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
The political gloves are off now. The left is being openly accused of promoting, deliberately or through idealistic ignorance, an deal of mass Third World migration into the West in exchange for electoral gain.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 28, 2025
The replacement vote idea has gone from taboo in polite conversation…
Happy Thanksgiving
The turkey is brined and in the oven, the dressing is ready to go in, and friends are coming over. I’m thankful for my health at an age I always figured as a kid would be OLD, friends in the space community, and the fact that things I’ve been hoping for for decades in space may finally be on the verge of happening. I’m also thankful that Jared gets another shot at running NASA. Finally, I’m thankful for my faithful readers, some of whom have become old friends, in both senses of the word, and some of whom we’ve lost over the years, but I always welcome new ones.
I’m less thankful for the Lions, but they’re not completely out of it yet.
Disport yourselves cordially in comments.