Category Archives: Social Commentary

Lileks

…is depressed and angry. So is Greg Gutfeld; he said so on The Five yesterday. I feel fortunate to live in a neighborhood that, despite being in the center of the LA metroplex, is unlikely to attract looters.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Thank CNN, the media, and the Democrats for the looting and the riots.

[Update a while later]

Pandemics and pandemonium: a history of pandemics and rioting, and a description of “riot ideology.” I just saw on Twitter that Barr is threatening to release communications between Antifa and prominent public officials to coordinate the mayhem. I’m guessing that none of those public officials are Republicans.

[Update while more later]

“Resistance” has become insurrection.

[Afternoon update]

How to destroy civilization. And American Kristallnacht.

I read Shirer’s “Rise and Fall” as a teenager, but not since.

The Latest On Masks

The New England Journal of Medicine says that wearing them outside medical facilities offers little protection.

False Flag

While we’re waiting to see if the weather will permit the launch…

Cops arrested four hundred people in Los Angeles last night.

Leo Terrell was on Hannity’s radio show yesterday, and sounding angry and (surprisingly) sane. He was lambasting the rioters and the Democrats.

SpaceX

returns human spaceflight to America (and southern California).

I’m glad this is happening, but it should have happened years ago.

[Update just before launch time]

Welp, I guess they’ll try again Saturday. Florida weather.

[Thursday-morning update]

American spaceflight is now in Elon Musk’s hands.

[Bumped]

[Saturday-afternoon (in Florida) update]

Trying again in less than an hour.

[Bumped again]

[Update after the launch]

Looks like everything went perfectly, with weather cooperating in the last hour. On orbit now, and heading for a rendezvous with ISS tomorrow morning. Vodkapundit live blogged it.

[Update a few minutes later]

Loren Grush’s story.

Another report from Emilee Speck.

[Sunday-morning update]

And, they’re docked. They named the ship Endeavour. Jonathan O’Callaghan has the story.

Roasting Chicken

I didn’t realize it was such a rare phenomenon. I rarely buy boneless chicken, and we roast a whole one (or split and grill it) almost every week, and then make soup with the leftovers, and have been doing it for years.

I continue to wonder how much this will change peoples’ eating habits, now that so many have learned to cook. It may mean that the restaurant industry will never recover to pre-plague levels.