As tyranny seems to be descending on Hong Kong, remembering the bloody Cultural Revolution of 53 years ago.
And Bryan Preston has four questions.
[Update a while later]
The China challenge.
[Friday afternoon update]
“American flags in Hong Kong show that people still fight for our values. We should join them.”
I think he’s right, but there’s too much Trump bashing in here. Trump is not the problem.
[Bumped]
Is he following in the footsteps of George H. W. Bush?
This has always been the problem with Trump: He doesn’t have any firm ideological principles and is first and foremost a populist. This would be an opportunity for him to explain why these things won’t work, but it’s not clear that he even understands that, and instead he is going along with them.
Worse than ever, after thirty-five years.
What reason is there for them to get better? The unions and the left (but I repeat myself) won’t allow real competition.
I haven’t read it yet, but Bob Zimmerman gives it a favorable review.
Judith Curry, on the latest travesty.
Science is not science without “contrarians.” It is religion.
[Thursday-morning update]
Related: Enlisting peer-reviewed science in the climate crusade.
Why Democrats are continually talking about it, and why it won’t work.
“I vote ‘No.’“
I was thinking this the other day, and even tweeted about it, I think. Booker is an asshat on many levels, but I’m pretty sure that voting for a vegan would be more controversial than voting for a gay president. Pretty sure we’ve never had one in the White House. Vegans should go back to Vega.
Will they bring about the end of civilization?
An interesting article on the latest advances in integrating all of the sensory apparatus. I’m assuming that, like most technology of this nature, it will be extensively and intensively porn driven.
The less racist it becomes, the more Republican it becomes.
Surprising no one familiar with the actual history. The Democrats have always been the party of racism, and likely always will be. It’s a defining feature.