It’s not really a review, per se, but the book is featured at Ricochet today.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Rocketman
It’s the end of a Bleat era. Lileks reviews the concluding episode.
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In which he has a brief conversation with a building that’s going to be demolished.
The Koch Brothers
Pejman, like me, laments the fact that he’s not on their payroll. While pointing out the rampant insanity of Paul Krugman (and the Dems in general on the subject).
The Prodigal Son
An amusing retelling, by Lileks.
The Culture War
It’s a clash of two faiths. And it’s one that the Left will do anything to win. They’re really just the modern-day descendants of the Puritans.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why it’s so hard to get “progressives” to live by their own rules.
To them, rules are for the little people.
Norman Borlaug
He probably saved more lives than anyone in history. And he understood how anti-human and anti-poor modern environmentalism is.
The Democrats’ War On Black People
…and how to fight it.
That war goes all the way back to slavery.
Michael Totten
He wants to go to Vietnam. If you like his work, you might consider donating to his new Kickstarter.
The American Physical Society
Just as the AAAS seems to be going all ass hat, the APS is rethinking its position on the “consensus.” Mann’s, Romm’s et al heads must have exploded when they saw that Curry, Lindzen and Christie are half of the working committee.
Reusable Falcons
Jeff Foust mined Gwynne Shotwell’s Space Show interview for some interesting nuggets. Here’s what I found interesting:
Despite concerns about US access to the ISS given current tensions with Russia and NASA’s current reliance on Soyuz, Shotwell said she didn’t think it was feasible to greatly accelerate the development of a crewed Dragon. “We proposed a pretty forward-leaning program” for commercial crew, she said. “I don’t want to say that we couldn’t speed things up: we probably could, but it would have to be in lockstep with NASA.” She added that SpaceX current believes it can have a crewed Dragon ready “a little bit faster” than current NASA plans for flights in late 2016 or early 2017. [Emphasis added]
I’m pretty sure that if NASA went to her and Elon and said, “we want to fly this year, and we’re willing to do it without the abort system,” they’d be able to do it.