…does not make you a better person.
I’m reading a review copy of an interesting new book from Bob Zimmerman on the history of slavery in America. One of the points he makes is that one of the things that created the cultural environment for it was the nature of how the Cavaliers founded Virginia, with the class bias and denigration of physical labor they brought from England.
A friend of decades was murdered there a couple years ago, stabbed in the neck while walking her dogs. There remains no suspect, and no motive.
[Update a while later]
Yes. It is (as always, since the founding of their party) the Democrats, not Trump, that are the racists.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Al Sharpton is on his way to save Baltimore from Trump.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Trump is absolutely right about con-man Al Sharpton.
One of the many reasons I can’t take Democrats seriously on race is the fact that they feel the need to kiss that corrupt grifter’s ring to get their party’s nomination.
[Update a few minutes later]
Trump has forced the Democrats to defend Al Sharpton. His superpower is to show them to be the corrupt anti-Semitic racist grifters that they are.
Bryan Preston isn’t impressed with the latest SF series, despite Katie Sackoff:
…in Another Life, only Sackhoff’s Niko and her AI sidekick (Samuel Anderson) are fit for this mission. The rest fill every negative millennial stereotype in the galaxy. They are whiny. They are grouchy. They scream obscenities at each other — all the time. They never fail to crack under the least amount of pressure. One is immediately mutinous. Another cannot ever think before opening their pie hole and saying things any rational adult knows they will immediately regret. Collectively, they perpetually can’t even.
But they’re sent out to save humanity anyway.
Ouch.
He doesn’t realize it, but “anti-space” events are really anti-humanity events. And as always, I am not impressed by people who think they are better arbiters of how other people should spend their money than those who are spending the money.
Our discussion from Sunday afternoon is now on line.
Just heard via Dennis Wingo that my former colleague at Rockwell has died. He, Bob Waldron and I were working lunar ISRU in the early 90s, during the SEI scare. Condolences to his other friends and family. We’re losing a lot of visionary people, just as we’re finally on the verge of breaking out.
Here is an interview with Ed on lunar settlements.
Was it malice, or ignorance? Given the level of his ignorance on so many subjects, I’m going to go with the latter.
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
Just wow.
You have to read to see what these insane grifters did to this moron and his innocent wife and kids. It really does read like Fatal Attraction meets a transgender Bonfire of the Vanities. Golden quote: “I just really hate the patriarchy, that’s it.”
Almost all of these people are bonkers.
She wasn’t weeping over an empty parking lot; she was lachrymose over an empty road, you haters.
I guess it was the lack of children to cry about that was making her cry.