First they get a new commercial space company, and now they’ve rejected ObamaCare. And California continues to swirl the bowl, with Sacramento and the morons who’ve sent people there reaching for the handle to give it another pull.
Not Five Sigma After All?
Is the Higgs boson an imposter?
Virgin Galactic’s Latest Plans
Rob Coppinger has the story, over at Fox News(!?).
I wonder if their orbital stage will be a hybrid? If they do team up with George Whittinghill, it seems likely.
The XCOR Midland Press Conference
It’s not webcast, but here’s a twitter stream for it.
“Greason: “Mojave has been a good for XCOR, but it’s time for us to prepare for the next phase of our plans.” #XCORMidland”
[Update a few minutes later]
Clark Lindsey has the official press release. I’m a little surprised that I didn’t get one — I would have thought I’d be on Mike Massee’s mailing list.
The Top Ten Pianists
…of all time. To day, anyway. Half of them I’d never heard of, but I knew the top four and Glenn Gould.
Whiniest. President. Evar.
No, Mr. Obama, I will not acknowledge that you “tried real hard.” What, between vacations and rounds of golf? But even if it’s true, I don’t believe in the labor theory of value, but we know you do.
Jeez, Lueez. As Frank J. tweeted the other day, I want to see his birth certificate just to verify that he’s not a little girl.
On Syria
…the administration is AWOL. Nothing new.
Dense Acellular Carbohydrates
In other words, sugar and flour. A new paper on why a paleolithic diet works.
Army Procurement Fiasco
Sadly, this reminds me of the saga of the M-16. Like NASA, the military can be as stupidly incompetent and politically driven as any other government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have much of an alternative.
The Little Blue Book
Quotations from Chairman Lakoff:
Lakoff does something throughout the book which he must think is very clever, but which is completely transparent to the reader, making for a truly cringe-worthy experience. Lakoff has two public personas: First, he is a scientist; and second, he is a partisan political advocate. He understands that when he speaks as a partisan, we the readers necessarily take what he says with a grain of salt; but when he speaks as a scientist, we are expected to accept his statements as objective truth. Throughout the book, he constantly switches back and forth between the two personas: He’ll speak for a paragraph or two as a liberal activist advising Democratic candidates and pundits, then he’ll take off that hat and put on the linguist hat to say something “official”; then switch back to his liberal hat, and so on. I guess the temptation was too great to resist abusing this dual role, because he makes a habit — a career, actually — of putting on his scientist hat and then making partisan statements, which he passes off as impartial facts. I can only imagine that he thinks he’s getting away with it, but the gambit is so glaringly obvious that it makes you almost embarrassed for the guy.
Ignoring the ultimate intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their ideas, leftists’ biggest problem in convincing intelligent people is their utter lack of self awareness. Read the whole thing. It’s advice to double down on failure.