An amusing people-on-the-street interview by Mary Roach. I knew four out of five.
I should do something like this to try to promote my book.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Wolves Of Silicon Valley
Joel Kotkin and Victor Davis Hanson have both written about the California oligarchy, but this piece points out their cruel but self-righteous youth:
“There are literally shanty towns underneath most highway overpasses in the city,” says Martínez. “But that techie kid who goes and gets his $5 single-origin, cruelty-free pour-over in some trendy coffee shop? He doesn’t give a s***. He just wants to get some liquidity around his shares and steps over the homeless guy en route to his yoga class.”
And, of course, as Ed Driscoll points out, and will come as no surprise to readers here, the dirty little secret is that they’re self-righteous Democrats.
College Snowflakes
What’s next for them? With bonus video from Ashe Schow.
The Food Tribes In LA
How they ruined my barbecue (he means grilling).
Peer Review
A spot-on rant.
It is highly highly overrated.
“Grooming”
Ladies, there may be good reasons to do a Brazilian clear-cutting (won’t anyone think of habitat-destruction of the lice?) but “hygiene” isn’t one of them.
[Friday-morning update]
Thoughts from a (female) gynocologist.
SLS/Orion
Donald Robertson has an op-ed at Space News that reflects many of the themes of my monograph (which, by the way, I have updated with feedback from the past couple days).
Willful Blindness And Radical Islam
Yes, ideology, not climate change or “Islamaphobia” or racism or poverty or the NRA causes terrorism.
The Left
…is angry at democracy.
Again.
This is all to distract from the fact that the EU is a failure.
[Update a few minutes later]
If the EU ends, Merkel will have herself to blame.
[Update a few more minutes later]
“Vote properly, you virulent racist!”
Call me crazy, but I’ve never found being called a racist or a xenophobe or a homophobe or an Islamaphobe or an anythingphobe a very compelling argument.
Spot Mini
Boston Dynamics’ robotic dogs are getting better. Nice to see that no one kicked them this time.