This is pretty cool.
Superman
Could he punch someone into space?
My answer is no, without even reading the link. I think that he could throw someone there (though they’d get cooked from the air friction on the way up), and they’d come back down unless they had escape velocity when they got to the top of the atmosphere, because there wouldn’t be an orbital insertion impulse. But if he punched them hard enough to do so, his fist would probably just take their head off. If he did it through their solar plexus, it would probably just go right through. People don’t consider the structural issues associated with superheroes and normal-human interactions with them.
Now Ralph Kramden, on the other hand… But then, he never carried out the threat.
Bad News For Boeing
Another 787 has caught fire, at Heathrow. Here is some BBC video. Fortunately, no one aboard, and it was on the ground. As noted, they are announcing there that another Dreamliner has just returned to Manchester, though its unclear if the incidents are related.
Eric Holder’s Race Card
Is it maxed out?
Unfortunately, not as long as Obama thinks he can continue to gin up his own base by keeping him there. And apparently he’s still got it in his wallet:
If Zimmerman is acquitted, look for race-obsessed and truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez to act against Zimmerman. We’ll see once again what that corrosive “common cause” can do.
He really is a quite despicable man.
And yeah, I know. I’m a racist, too cowardly to discuss race.
That Terrible Pollutant, CO2
…allows trees to get by on less water. Of course, this can’t possibly be allowed to be good news:
The immense volume of water that trees pull out of the ground winds up in the atmosphere, helping supply moisture to farming areas downwind of forests. So if trees use less water, that could ultimately mean less rain for thirsty crops in at least some regions of the world.
It could mean lots of things — good, bad and indifferent — and the vast majority of them unpredictable, given the non-linear nature of the equations and our lack of understanding of the complexity of all the interactions, which is why it’s crazy to be attempting to make costly public policy on the presumption that Carbon Is Evil.
Delaying College
Some thoughts (mostly in comments):
The idea of going to a theme park, on your parents’ dime, with fashionable political fear, having undertaken no scholarly preparation…every single thing about this enterprise seemed wrong.
And expensive and destructive. We have a generation that’s putting off home buying and starting a family because they wasted tens of thousands on either useless degrees or (worse yet) never graduated at all.
Obama’s Precedent
If Obama can suspend the employer mandate, why couldn’t a Republican president suspend the capital gains tax?
Or the corporate income tax? Or the whole damn code?
Democrats never think through the long-term implications of their lawlessness, because they assume that through it, they will gain eternal power. We can’t let them.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Repeal the Bill of Rights!” So say Obama supporters. No surprise to me. Just more of that old-time “liberal” fascism.
Promoting Race Hate
“I’m so old, I can remember when most of the people doing that were white.”
Well, to be fair, a lot of them doing it today are still white. And now, as then, they’re Democrats.
Trolling For Traffic
This guy probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that he probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen, and most of them aren’t going to bother to ever return, now that they’ve seen him.
It might have helped if he’d, you know, actually put forth a substantive criticism.
Salt
There is no scientific evidence that reducing intake is good for your health.
I’ve cut back myself, because I seem to be empirically salt sensitive, in terms of my blood pressure, but EPID in that regard, I think. I’ve also switched over to sea salt to get a wider variety, including potassium. I’d never prescribe public policy about the matter, or make war on it, as Nurse Bloomberg has.