Of course they are. By the way, I can’t commend Ashe Schow enough on how she’s coming to the defense of men.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Another Private Mars Venture
These people want to set up at the pole. “Looking for alien life” doesn’t seem compatible with settlement, though, unless you don’t care if you contaminate or wipe it out.
Migrating To Mars
Shouldn’t we solve poverty first?
No.
Trigger Warnings
Some thoughts on fragile feminists, from Roger Kimball. Their parents should be embarrassed, particularly if they’re paying for this.
To Fix Higher Education
It’s absurd that they come close to outnumbering faculty, let alone when it actually happens.
Bachelors’ Degrees
America must end its addiction to them.
That one’s easy. End the federal student-loan program, and let employers use aptitude tests.
On The Decadence Of A Decaying And Dying Republic
These “feminists” are not serious people.
[Update a few minutes later]
"A people who values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower #MemorialDay pic.twitter.com/NvlMiVbatH
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) May 23, 2015
The Media
Forty-eight reasons to despise and distrust it.
Seems like a low number to me.
Princess Chelsea
Somehow, this shocks me not at all. I guess nothing has changed since she called the Secret Service detail “pigs” because that’s what Mom and Dad did.
“Leaving Orbit”
An interview with Margaret Lazarus Dean, whose new book
Part-memoir, part-historical document, part-manifesto, Margaret Lazarus Dean’s perceptive new book Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight (which will be released May 19) asks the question, ”What does it mean that we have been going to space for 50 years and have decided to stop?”
Ummmm…we haven’t “decided to stop.” We’ve been going into space continually since the Shuttle was retired. Within two years, we’ll be doing it on American vehicles from American soil.
I do think there is a popular attitude right now, popular among young and old alike, that government always mucks everything up by its very nature, that private enterprise can always do everything better, and that attitude is particularly dangerous to funding big unprofitable projects like spaceflight. I meet a lot of people who are under the impression that SpaceX is going to take over, and improve upon, everything NASA did, but that’s a misunderstanding of the scope of SpaceX’s plans. A project like going to Mars, which is the next logical step, is so massively expensive it can only be paid for by a federal government. So if we want to go there, we are going to have to learn to trust.
Nonsense.