Rick Grenell may run against Newsom. Note that the story doesn’t mention the fact that he’s out as gay, which could actually help him in California. He’d be a powerful candidate for a Republican.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
From Social Liberalism
…to social control.
I disagree with the last graf, though. The left has never been about the liberation of human beings or, if it imagines it was, it has always had the opposite effect whenever it gains control.
[Update a few minutes later]
A reminder: There are no socialist success stories.
Being Patronized By Our Inferiors
I, too, in high school had to memorize that soliloquy.
California’s Problems
Ezra Klein misapprehends them.
To be fair, Ezra is an equal-opportunity misapprehender.
Cats’ Killer Instinct
We feed ours grain-free food, and play with them quite a bit, with fishing poles and lasers. They go outside, but generally stay in the yard, and neither has gotten a bird in the two years we’ve had them. Also, since they were bottle fed almost from birth (their mother was too sick to nurse them, let alone teach them to hunt), they never learned.
The Neoracists
Thoughts on “anti-racism” from John McWhorter.
Excuse Me?
How is comparing today’s political climate to Nazi Germany anti-Semitic?
[Update a few minutes later]
I don’t know where that first link came from, but I think it’s fixed now.
[Update a while later]
Carano’s firing is just more Calvinball.
And she gets her job back by identifying as an abusive male director.
[Friday-morning update]
The Election
…wasn’t “stolen,” but it was underhandedly tilted.
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
Deranged Space Barons Like Elon Musk
Jacobin mag wants to regulate him.