As a reluctant resident, who has never been thrilled with the place, when I read articles like this, I always wonder what the attraction ever was.
My experience with people down here who like it is that they’re from the north or northeast. I rarely meet anyone here who moved from the west, particularly the west coast. My theory is that people who don’t like winter, but do like Atlantic beaches (the only kind with which they’re familiar) think that this is heaven (at least in the winter). But that’s because they’ve never lived any place that’s actually nice, and they’re indifferent to scenery.
Dwayne “Dr. Evil” Day (foolishly, but then, as he admits himself, no one has ever credibly accused him of being a genius) describes his plans for world domination.
Seriously, Frontier Astronautics has actually done this (purchased an old ICBM silo, that is, not dominated the world–at least not yet). It’s actually a pretty neat example of swords to plowshares.
In other news (that’s not really news), Taylor Dinerman writes that the Outer Space Treaty has outlived its usefulness, to the degree that it ever had any.
I should note, for anti-war loons. I don’t actually put that much stock in these kinds of statistics, for reasons I mentioned in comments–they don’t actually necessarily presage the future. I simply point them out to those who are so eager to leap on them when they think that they tell the false narrative that they want told.
[Update in mid afternoon]
For those who are into this kind of numerology, here is a lot more analysis by John Wixted.
I should note, for anti-war loons. I don’t actually put that much stock in these kinds of statistics, for reasons I mentioned in comments–they don’t actually necessarily presage the future. I simply point them out to those who are so eager to leap on them when they think that they tell the false narrative that they want told.
[Update in mid afternoon]
For those who are into this kind of numerology, here is a lot more analysis by John Wixted.
I should note, for anti-war loons. I don’t actually put that much stock in these kinds of statistics, for reasons I mentioned in comments–they don’t actually necessarily presage the future. I simply point them out to those who are so eager to leap on them when they think that they tell the false narrative that they want told.
[Update in mid afternoon]
For those who are into this kind of numerology, here is a lot more analysis by John Wixted.