Physics Today uncritically reports on Koonin’s WSJ piece.
This really should be a strike below the waterline of the “consensus.” It’s nice to see that APS has come to its senses.
Meanwhile, there was an extraordinary meeting in Bath. I’d have liked to have been there.
Not being a gamer (and/or part of that community) I haven’t really been paying attention to this, but it appears to be pretty ugly. Unsurprisingly, it’s driven by leftist “journalists.”
A moving reading, from Dana Loesch.
A new technique to cure it.
I had a bout with it last summer on my left heel. I bought some orthotics at the drug store, and it went away after a few weeks, but if it recurs, I’ll try this.
The sad thing about this article at The Onion is that it could almost be true.
The truther brigade circles the wagons.
The IRS also targeted groups that had the temerity to try to teach people about the Constitution. Well, they are a threat to big government.
Laws have gotten far too detailed:
Until recent decades, law based on principles was the structure of most public law. The Constitution is 10 pages long and provides basic precepts—say, the Fourth Amendment prohibition on “unreasonable searches and seizures”—without trying to define every situation. The recent Volcker Rule regulating proprietary trading, by contrast, is 950 pages, and, in the words of one banker, is “incoherent any way you look at it.”
Legal principles have the supreme virtue of activating individual responsibility. Law is still supreme. The goals of law are centralized, but implementation is decentralized. Every successful regulatory program works this way. New airplanes, for example, must be certified as “airworthy” by the FAA. There are no detailed regulations that set forth how many rivets per square foot are required. It’s up to the judgment of FAA officials. This system works pretty well. Which would you trust more, a plane approved by experts at the FAA or a plane that was allowed to fly merely because it satisfied a bunch of rules, many outdated?
The health-care law exemplifies this problem.
Some thoughts on the demonization of innovation. Sadly, from both sides of the aisle. It brings to mind the stupid attacks on Newt, by Romney and others, when he proposed a bold space policy.
Politico‘s epic fail. It’s what happens when you put a cub reporter on a big job.
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How utterly predictable. Lefty “journalists” circle the wagons around the cub reporter, and attack a real one.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“To call [the interview] a whitewash would be an insult to lime.”