What a wonderful phrase. Josh Trevino writes about the folks who have just taken over the Congress.
Still Busy
I’m back from Wyoming, but busy painting the house. But Clark has a lot a lot of good stuff over at his site. Just keep scrolling.
The Danger Of The Dems
They don’t understand, or don’t believe, posts like this.
Just What Kind Of Democrat Is He?
Glenn comments on Webb’s classy behavior.
I hope, if not expect, that this is why the Dems victory will be short lived.
Busy
I’m in Longmont, Colorado, looking at a cloud-shrouded Long’s Peak behind the front range. Checking out, and heading up to Boulder for a few hours, then back to Florida this afternoon.
As Dale Amon notes, we’ve been getting a new company off the ground, named Wyoming Space and Information Systems. More anon, but probably not today.
Happy Birthday, And Semper Fi
I had never realized that the anniversary of the founding of the Marines was the day before Armistice Day. It’s been two hundred thirty one years. They’re older than the nation itself–there’s never been a US of A without them.
Worrying News
Jacob Weisberg writes about the illiberal, Lou-Dobbs Democrats:
For some reason, economic nationalists never seem to complain about job-killing Dutch or Irish competition. The targets of their anger are consistently China and Mexico, with occasionally whacks at Dubai, Oman, Peru, and Vietnam.
…Economic nationalism is not unique to Democrats
Mischief
If I were the administration, I’d try to talk Joe Lieberman into becoming Secretary of Defense, and then replacing him with an appointee by Connecticut’s Republican governor. Lieberman probably made a deal with Reid and Pelosi that he wouldn’t switch parties, but I’ll bet he didn’t promise to serve out his term.
Better Ways
Jon Goff has a good overview of the alternatives to ESAS, with commentary. Read the comments, also, particularly regarding propellant delivery. I am getting more and more intrigued by Lockheed Martin’s approach, and starting to think they’re really serious.
Too Many Cameras
And not enough words. Virginia makes a point that I was vaguely feeling on election day about PJM coverage:
Personally, I hated the PJM election coverage, because I don’t want to have to watch video online. I want to read, and PJM offered way too little written material. But with the right technology, video is much easier to provide–especially if you don’t care about shaky-cam production.
I want to read, too. Given a choice between watching a video (or even listening to audio) of people saying stuff, and reading a transcript, give me the transcript every time, unless there’s some particular reason to want to parse tone/expression, etc.
Save the video for things that need video (rocket launches, explosions, bikini contests, etc.) and give me text for more straightforward information.
I don’t take in and retain information that well through my ears. I always preferred to read the textbook to listening to a professor lecture. The baud rate is just too low. Similarly, whenever (say) Glenn links to something that looks (sounds?) interesting, and it turns out to be a podcast or video, there’s always this resistance to click, or wait for the words to dribble out, whereas if it’s to text, I eagerly read it. I don’t have time to listen to someone tell me something when I can read it much faster.
I hope that as voice recognition gets better, we’ll get more and better instant transcripts of talking-head stuff.