Category Archives: Social Commentary
Die Hard
The New Vette
It looks like a very interesting car, but I would miss the manual gearbox, too.
Hair Loss
It may become optional. This doesn’t sound like it would help people who have already lost hair, though.
Sex Robots
…with coding errors could cause them to engage in violence and strangle people.
Hey, sex is always risky. At least it’s not like a black widow spider.
Boris Johnson’s Revolution
Thoughts from Michael Barone.
I’m encouraged that he wants to emphasize science and technology. This could create some useful Anglospheric alliances in space, particularly if he sets up a Royal Space Force.
[Update a few minutes later]
He’s going after the Beeb. That would be amazing if he could get rid of that pack of leftist hacks.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Farewell To California
Andrew Malcolm has had enough.
We’re thinking of getting out, too. I’ve loved this state since I first visited it on a family vacation over half a century ago, but the inmates are running the asylum in Sacramento.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Over one in three San Franciscans are thinking of leaving.
Draining The Swamp
Federal bureaucrats are quitting rather than move out west.
Sounds good to me.
Manual Transmissions
I’ve posted this before, but another example of why they’re good for car-theft prevention.
Altamont
I was alive then, a few months after Apollo 11, but I’d never heard the full story of what had happened there; I only knew that there was another music festival, like Woodstock.