A story on his plans for orbital and lunar bases, starting three years from now, at CNBC.
The American Physical Society
Is it rethinking its climate-change statement?
It certainly should. As some who resigned in protest said, its previous one was scientifically irresponsible and driven by politics.
Snowboarding Women
…and unisex slopes:
The true feminist will blithely have it both ways, indifferent to the contradiction: The unisex course is sexist because it injures women and trying to protect women from injury is sexist. Likewise, feminists toggle at will between the position that there should be gender quotas for women in political positions, say, because females bring a special sensibility to political problems, and the position that men and women are identical in every way and thus that any disparities in outcomes — whether in advanced math and physics attainment or in the predilection for public debate — must be the result of sexism. As injuries build up for female combat soldiers, expect to see the same confused thinking. The Army will be blamed for not doing enough to protect females while also being pressured to pretend that females are the absolute equal of men and thus need no protection.
Leftists never have problems with that sort of cognitive dissonance.
“Never Again”
Once again, we know that people who say it don’t really mean it. In fact, many of them would be happy to see it happen again in Israel.
Fuel Efficiency Standards For Trucks
Thoughts on the policy stupidity of it. As noted, truckers already have plenty of incentives to get their trucks as fuel-efficient as possible. This also applies to CAFE (which in turn is equally stupid to the new light-bulb rules).
[Update a while later]
The single-entry bookkeeping of the Left. This is particularly the case with carbon mitigation, which the warm mongers always ignore, or fantasize that it will be less than the cost of changes in the climate.
Federal Welfare Overpayments
…are on the order of a hundred billion per year, a lot of it from Medicare/Medicaid.
One of the stupider arguments (among many) made by proponents of those programs it that they “have low overhead costs,” relative to private insurers. Well, it’s easy to have low overhead costs if you pay no attention to whether or not a claim is valid. I consider a hundred billion in overpayments in fact a very high overhead cost.
Five Years Of Stimulus
Did it work?
No.
As some wag noted at the time, it was stimulating in the same way a clumsy ugly person doing a pole dance was.
Thad Cochran
As with many Republicans, I would not miss him. I hope that Mississippi voters dump him.
[Update a couple days later]
Sorry, wrong link. Fixed now.
Also, there’s this:
Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., made a surprising admission to a local Mississippi news outlet during a Monday campaign swing: “The Tea Party is something I don’t really know a lot about,” he told WLOX.
He may be about to learn a lot more than he ever wanted to know.
Is Astrology Scientific?
So a lot of people have been discussing this paper, that shows that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to think that it is, but I question its results because the methodology seems flawed. They should have first asked the question: “Do you understnd the difference between astronomy and astrology?” Because there’s a possibility that some of the respondents were simply confused, and thinking the latter was the former. Which is a form of ignorance, but nowhere near as bad as knowing what astrology is and thinking it scientific.
Kiev
“I am a Ukrainian.”
I want us to be free, too.