Here they come. This evil can’t be destroyed soon enough.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Trump’s Foolish Gamble
…on abortion.
I hope it costs him the nomination.
Six Thoughts On Elon Musk
[Update a few minutes later]
On reading through it, this jumped out at me: “The brain strain of designing the car is tiny compared to the brain strain of designing the factory.”
What is more important about Starship is not the design of the vehicle, but the fact that he’s building a shipyard.
The Harm Caused By masks
This is actual science, not faux Fauci science.
At some point, it should become conventional wisdom that many of the measures to fight Covid were much more societally devastating than Covid itself.
Elie Mystal
It’s impossible to parody these people.
Climate Dissent
Here is what you’re not hearing because it’s being suppressed.
It really is a religious hysteria.
Minority Voters
How Republicans can get them to abandon the Democrats.
AI and Leviathan
The third part of a series of essays by Sam Hammond.
Misogyny
Is it real? John Tierney doesn’t think so.
9/11
I was in San Juan, about to head to the airport for a flight back to California, I was about to call a cab when I saw the second plane hit the second tower. I instantly realized that we were at war, and that there was no point in going to the airport.
But twenty-two years on, we seem to have forgotten it ever happened.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds remembers, and he’s angry. So am I.
[Update later morning]
9/11 is a memorial to repeated and ongoing FBI failures, which which no one is ever held accountable.