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Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Democrats Lost The Sequester
Plus, it’s long past time to privatize air-traffic control. My long-time associate and friend Bob Poole at Reason has been promoting this for years.
Jake Tapper’s Offensive Tweet
This is pretty damn funny.
Sleep
Are we on the verge of conquering it?
The comments are sort of interesting. A lot of the naturalistic fallacy is showing up there. I found particularly amusing the one commenter who couldn’t imagine that evolution could make a mistake.
[Via Geek Press]
Elevators
If you want to freak people out in an elevator, face the back wall.
Starships
A symposium, in San Diego. It looks interesting — I may go. Could be an opportunity for book sales and signings.
Germany’s Green Fail
They may have to start using shale to remain competitive with the U.S.
They worry that the country’s ambitious environmental goals are far less meaningful if the economy withers in achieving them.
You don’t say.
It would be a shame if they decided to start being economically sane.
[Update a while later]
More bad news for the warm-mongering econuts — scientists say that fracking is safe. And of course, they’ll believe it, because as they always tell us, we must follow the science.
Synesthesia
When three plus green equals four.
Actually, I think that this would explain a lot of the administration’s environmental and energy policy.
Big Bangers
Steve Hayward wonders if there could be a sitcom about think tankers.
Actually, it would be amusing to see the interactions between denizens of, say, AEI and Brookings. And imagine the snark from Cato, CEI and Reason. I’d cast Katherine Mangu-Ward as herself. But Kate Micucci might be able to do the job, too. And then there’s Jonah.
Someone needs to work up a treatment, stat.
Crony Socialism
The White House knew that Fisker was headed for a fall, and gave them our money anyway.
Hey, got to keep those campaign donations coming in.