Stanley Kurtz has a review of Evan Coyne Maloney’s documentary on political correctness run amok on college campuses:
I was struck by the scientist who said that her students were able to figure out her politics simply by noting what she did not say. Just by teaching her subject, without adding extraneous leftist political harangues, she had revealed herself to be a closet Republican. You won
Not that that’s a bad thing. Also known as “Cinco de Pinko.”
At Free Republic. The comments are a hoot:
Note to self: should the need unfortunately arise, tell the surgeon that I don’t want him to do my colostomy this way.
Either way, I suspect that you’ll still pay through the nose.
It took the fortieth commenter in this post to tell me that the first link was broken. As I note there, it simply confirms my long-standing observation that many commenters here respond only to what I write or excerpt, without troubling themselves to go read what I’m basing my comments on. For instance, Bill White didn’t respond at all, instead using the opportunity to grab my bandwidth and disk space, and my readers’ eyeballs, to post and link to blather from Barack Obama.
Often, of course, people who do this make fools of themselves, when I link to a satirical piece, because they don’t have any idea what I linked to, instead just responding to the opposite of my point.
Here’s a suggestion for everyone. Read more, and comment less, until you actually know what you’re commenting about, and have had time to give it a little thought.
One of the things that I’ve long criticized George Bush for was keeping so many losers on from the Clinton administration, Tenet being foremost, but Norm Mineta another. In the case of Tenet, it isn’t clear if this was part of “changing the tone in Washington,” or misplaced loyalty to a family friend. (Dan Goldin was yet another, but at least there he had the excuse that it’s hard to find a NASA administrator, not to mention the fact that he’d been appointed by his father.) Either way, it was a disaster.
Sunday night, Tenet gave the impression that any thought of Saddam and al Qaeda
Eric Hedman thinks that there’s nothing wrong with the space program that can’t be solved with more money.
Sorry, no sale here. Even if it were possible to increase NASA’s budget by over fifty percent in the current political climate, all it would mean is more waste, less motivation to do things smart, and less pressure on them to rely on commercial suppliers. It wouldn’t result in more cost effective space activities, which are what are required to open up the frontier. Until the people developing space systems are spending their own money, as XCOR, SpaceX, Armadillo and others are, we’ll continue to get pork-based solutions, with little resembling innovation, in which success of the mission itself is, at best, a secondary goal.
[Update at 11:30]
Oh, and Mark? There’s no such word as “enfusion.”
Get Firefox. It has a spell checquer built in.
After a story about cave-man (and woman) sex (“So easy, a cave man can do it!”): “Now back to serious news–American Idol.”
Oh, Megyn, you used to sound so smart before you started doing that morning show.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, on reflection, maybe she was being tongue in cheek. I’d certainly like to think so.
[Update a minute or so later]
Actually, now that I think about it some more, I just like to think about her tongue in a cheek. Maybe even mine.
But I probably shouldn’t have thoughts like that. I’m quite confident that my darling Patricia wouldn’t approve. Nor should she.
Nope. Not thinking about that at all.
The disease may not be as destructive of memory as previously believed. That means that if they can come up with a cure, or ways of repairing the neuronal damage, people may be savable as the persons they were. This would reduce the attractiveness of the cryonics solution for them, if true.
[Update in the afternoon]
I should clarify that last sentence, per the question in comments. What I mean is that it would reduce the attractiveness of cryonics as a cure for Alzheimer’s. That is, if you believe that Alzheimer’s is destroying your mind, you’d like to preserve it before it’s all gone, so even though it’s currently illegal, it would be desirable to have yourself frozen now in the hope that they can repair you in the future, rather than the empty husk of the Alzheimer’s-addled you, from which all knowledge of who you are is gone.
This research provides an alternative. Let the mind go, if it can be brought back with future therapies, even before you’re suspended, without taking the risk on freezing it.
The disease may not be as destructive of memory as previously believed. That means that if they can come up with a cure, or ways of repairing the neuronal damage, people may be savable as the persons they were. This would reduce the attractiveness of the cryonics solution for them, if true.
[Update in the afternoon]
I should clarify that last sentence, per the question in comments. What I mean is that it would reduce the attractiveness of cryonics as a cure for Alzheimer’s. That is, if you believe that Alzheimer’s is destroying your mind, you’d like to preserve it before it’s all gone, so even though it’s currently illegal, it would be desirable to have yourself frozen now in the hope that they can repair you in the future, rather than the empty husk of the Alzheimer’s-addled you, from which all knowledge of who you are is gone.
This research provides an alternative. Let the mind go, if it can be brought back with future therapies, even before you’re suspended, without taking the risk on freezing it.
The disease may not be as destructive of memory as previously believed. That means that if they can come up with a cure, or ways of repairing the neuronal damage, people may be savable as the persons they were. This would reduce the attractiveness of the cryonics solution for them, if true.
[Update in the afternoon]
I should clarify that last sentence, per the question in comments. What I mean is that it would reduce the attractiveness of cryonics as a cure for Alzheimer’s. That is, if you believe that Alzheimer’s is destroying your mind, you’d like to preserve it before it’s all gone, so even though it’s currently illegal, it would be desirable to have yourself frozen now in the hope that they can repair you in the future, rather than the empty husk of the Alzheimer’s-addled you, from which all knowledge of who you are is gone.
This research provides an alternative. Let the mind go, if it can be brought back with future therapies, even before you’re suspended, without taking the risk on freezing it.