A story on the legal issues associated with personal suborbital spaceflight.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Kathleen Sebelius
Why does she still have a job?
Treacher explains.
Saturated Fat
The science is (finally) settled:
Since the 1970s almost everyone in this country has been subjected to a barrage of propaganda about saturated fat. It was bad for you; it would kill you. Never mind that much of the nonsaturated fat was in the form of trans fats, now demonstrated to be harmful. Never mind that many polyunsaturated fats are chemically extracted oils that may also, in the long run, be shown to be problematic.
Never mind, too, that the industry’s idea of “low fat” became the emblematic SnackWell’s and other highly processed “low-fat” carbs (a substitution that is probably the single most important factor in our overweight/obesity problem), as well as reduced fat and even fat-free dairy, on which it made billions of dollars. (How you could produce fat-free “sour cream” is something worth contemplating.)
But let’s not cry over the chicharrones or even nicely buttered toast we passed up. And let’s not think about the literally millions of people who are repelled by fat, not because it doesn’t taste good (any chef will tell you that “fat is flavor”) but because they have been brainwashed.
And this junk-science nutritional advice almost certainly contributed to my father’s death thirty-five years ago. I hope, at some point, that they stop putting all the “fat free” labels in the candy section.
A Book Review
It’s not really a review, per se, but the book is featured at Ricochet today.
Rocketman
It’s the end of a Bleat era. Lileks reviews the concluding episode.
[Update a couple minutes later]
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.