Category Archives: Social Commentary

Business, Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

The Latest On Masks

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

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

False Flag

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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.

Business, History, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

SpaceX

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…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.

Culinary, Health, Social Commentary, Weird

Roasting Chicken

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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.