Assuming there are only a few hundred people living there, the country now has the highest murder rate in the world.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Racist Police Violence
…reconsidered. By John McWhorter.
The Statues Coming Down
Why the right foresaw it.
This isn’t about anti-racism; it’s about western civilization itself.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, I see that it’s paywalled. Ed Driscoll has an excerpt.
Joe Biden’s Dementia
55% of people think he’s in the early stages of it. I disagree. There’s nothing “early” about it. Of course, it’s not like he was ever that bright to begin with.
Soft Totalitarianism
The Sovietization of American culture.
[Update a few minutes later]
A conservative pretends that there is allowable debate in America.
[Update late morning]
Black Lives Matter must be beyond criticism. Professor Jacobson is clearly guilty of wrongthink.
[Update Friday morning]
We refuse mob rule.
Kurt Schlichter certainly refuses to bow before them.
Persecution Is Cool
Bob Zimmerman, on the cancel culture within the space and science community.
Keith has blocked me on Twitter, and I suspect I’m on a lot of blocklists. I follow a lot of space people, like Carolyn, but only engage them on space and science topics. I don’t argue non-space politics with space people, because many of them are leftist loons, which is why I maintain separate accounts for space stuff and the book.
[Update Wednesday morning]
Technology
Which one has accidentally killed the most people?
I agree with the historian who says that the question is ill framed.
Farming
This sort of reminds me of Bloomberg’s expert advice on how to grow stuff.
White Man’s Burden
An open letter to his (or her) colleagues from an anonymous black professor at Berkeley.
Get Woke
Go depopulated. Almost twenty percent of Minneapolis real estate has gone on the market in the last week. Though, to be fair, this could just be a combination of a summer uptick, and pent-up supply from months of shutdown in which it was hard to do a real-estate transaction.
But if it’s due to rioting, I suspect this will be the fate of a lot of cities in the coming months and years, including Seattle. I suspect our home value will hold up, though. Always going to be demand to live near the beach in LA County.