Covid didn’t cause this so much as accelerate it. These trends were inevitable. And when it comes to education, this is good news. Start funding students, and not “school systems.”
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Yes, He Does
Fox News
What to do about it?
I hate to boycott Tucker, but as Ace says, that may be the only way to hit these morons between the eyes with a two by four. And yeah, maybe Newsmax and OAN could merge, or maybe if he doesn’t pull it out, Trump could start a new network.
International Law
Elon Musk says it will not apply on Mars.
Does that imply that he won’t abide by the Outer Space Treaty?
Biden’s Internal Polling
…must be telling the campaign something lot different from the public polls. With the defections from the blacks and Hispanics, and the elderly, I’m starting to think it may be a Trump landslide, which will be needed to overcome all of the fraud. Biden probably blew Pennsylvania in the debate. If he loses Minnesota, it’s game over.
[Update a while later]
More on the state of the race in Minnesota.
Gordon Woodcock
I just learned that he passed a few days ago. He was both a good and great man, devoted to getting us into space. He was the manager of the Boeing SPS study in the late 70s. I knew him both from L-5 and NSS, and from working with him in the 80s when Boeing and Rockwell teamed on a project.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Well, that was fast. This post is already on the first few links at DuckDuckGo.
The Student-Loan Problem
A modest proposal: Make the universities pay.
They’ve gotten away with this madness for far too long.
[Afternoon update]
Did you know about the ignorance of college students?
A Never Trumper
…is feeling pushed toward Trump. Even though I’m not religious, I agree with much of this.
[Update a few minutes later]
A momentous election:
Donald Trump may be an odd ambassador of freedom. His motley may not pass muster in the salons and drawing rooms of our lords and masters. But Joe Biden is but a gibbering front for a vanguard that would destroy America as traditionally conceived—America, I mean, as a crucible of ordered liberty, limited government, and individual freedom.
Yes.
Ava Gardner
A visit to a museum dedicated to her life. I hadn’t realized that she was born, and died, in the same years as my mother was. They lived parallel lives in time.
The Lockdowns
Were not just immensely destructive to human capital, but probably ineffective.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A child psychologist on the devastating impacts to young children of the pandemic response.