Robert Graboyes, of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, notes the similarities between spaceflight and health care.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Progressivism
Will this year be the year that history finally turns against totalitarianism?
I hope so, but fear it won’t.
The New Trauma
Thoughts on “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings.”
My sympathy for your suffering, whether that suffering was real or imaginary, ended when you demanded I change my life to avoid bringing up your bad memories. You don’t seem to have figured this out, but there is no “I must never be reminded of a negative experience” expectation in any culture anywhere on earth.
If your psyche is so fragile you fall apart when someone inadvertently reminds you of “trauma”, especially if that trauma consisted of you overreacting to a self-interpreted racial slur, you need therapy. You belong on a psychiatrist’s couch, not in college dictating what the rest of society can’t do, say or think. Get your own head right before you start trying to run other people’s lives. If you expect everyone around you to cater to your neurosis, forever, you’re what I’d call a “failure at life”. And you’re doomed to perpetual disappointment.
Good thing people aren’t putting themselves into hopeless levels of undischargeable debt to get so “educated.”
Oh, wait.
[Update a while later]
This seems related, somehow: Advice for shy, male nerds:
[Update Monday morning]
Here is a guy who will never get laid:
Obviously, Parton must have been really hurt, perhaps even more hurt than when people ask him to say “Cool Whip.” But because he’s a really sensitive guy, he did not “blame her one bit” for not understanding.
In fact, he said her calloused response made him realize that he might have committed a microaggression against another person at some time in his life without even realizing he was doing it!
“I am afraid because microaggressions aren’t harmless — there’s research to show that they cause anxiety and binge drinking among the minority students who are targeted,” he writes.
I’ve got a better solution to binge drinking. Lower the drinking age.
Asian Buddhists
…get militant. Well, they’re going to have to, sadly:
This won’t be the last of such surges in militancy. The 21st century was supposed to be a post-religious, post-modernist era of peaceful secularism. That now looks less and less like the world we are living in.
And you know whose fault this isn’t? America’s.
Adam Gopnik
Gun-controller wannabe legal (and moral) idiot.
[Afternoon update]
What is it about “progressives” and guns?
Happy New Year
Hope it’s a good one for all. There seems to be a consensus that 2014 sucked (though I thought the first Tuesday in November went pretty well). In any event, let’s hope 2015 improves on it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why 2015 may be the best year in history.
Failure To Escape From New York
A short story, in tweets.
The Police Wars
The problem isn’t racism (it rarely is, or at least it is much more rarely than it’s proclaimed to be). It’s tribalism. And the Left seems to cocoon itself much more.
Common Core And Campus Sexual-Assault Policies
Here‘s the link to the George Will column she cites.
Jessica Chastain
…buys the BS about SLS/Orion, sadly.