Why it doesn’t help you lose weight.
The notion that eating less and exercising more is part of the medieval thinking that all calories are equal, and it’s just about thermodynamics.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Losing A Bet On Tesla
And here’s Elon’s response: “Thanks Dan, you are a good sportsman. I will still donate to DWB as though I’d lost.”
The Newsroom
Why Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series is good news for Republicans.
[Update a while later]
Heh. Sorkinisms. I love the top comment.
The World’s Smallest Violin
That’s what I’m playing for people who can’t successfully prosecute idiotic and immoral anti-prostitution laws. Glenn has the right idea:
…why not just legalize prostitution. Legal prostitution is safer and healthier, and it’ll provide employment opportunities for some of those unemployed college grads.
It’s not like it goes away if you make it illegal.
Yeah, I know. I’m just being a crazy “right winger,” as usual.
Art
Political art. Politically incorrect art. That is apparently doing very well for the artist.
Space SF Art
…from the fifties.
Who Invented “Hello”?
V’ger And Nazis
Thoughts on the cosmos and other stuff from Lileks.
If The Young Knew What Was Good For Them
…they’d join the Tea Party. It doesn’t help that the kleptocratic collectivists have taken over both higher and lower education.
The Right Stuff
Brian Binnie (who flew the first X-Prize flight) emails:
…this e-book:
The Right Stuff: Interviews with Icons of the 1960s
, is available just in time for Father’s day. It’s the first in a series dealing with “adventurers” over the decades, many of whom are leaders in the space arena. I wrote the forward to it and the SpaceShipOne story will appear when the chronology finally gets to the 2000’s.
I met Jim via the eclectic Explorers Club and he is regular contributor to Forbes Magazine.
Cheers, Brian
You might want to check it out.