John Kerry
He’s back, in all of his tone-deaf glory.
Forget the fact that to first order, there are no solar-panel manufacturers here. Has anyone done an economic analysis of shifting from a high-density energy source to a low one? Kerry et al say that solar-panel production is the one in which jobs are growing fastest, but that’s meaningless outside the context of how many there are, or how low labor productivity they are in energy production, compared to gas and oil. It’s easy to grow something that is minuscule fast, but that doesn’t solve the problems of all the people Biden just threw out of work.
Buffalo Man
“Prosecutors also said that Angeli ‘demonstrates scattered and fanciful thoughts, and is unable to appreciate reality.’”
Yeah, that guy will be totally unimpeachable as a witness in an impeachment trial.
The Republican Party
Kristi Noem is the female Ronald Reagan, and she may be the second, if not the first woman president.
[Update a while later]
Yes, as pointed out in comments, the first elected woman president. And she may be the first, period, if Demented Joe manages to hang on for four years (or something happens to Harris before something happens to Joe).
Biden’s “Racial Justice” Agenda
Judge everyone by the color of their skin.
MLK weeps.
Short Sellers
…hit the end of an era as rookies run the market.
As the article notes, there is a long history of this kind of thing, and it’s cyclical.
Big Sur
Welp, the road was washed out again, this time at Rat Creek.
Trying to figure out how that happened. Presumably there was a culvert under the road to allow the water to pass through. Did it get clogged with debris? Fortunately, no one was hurt, but who knows how long Big Sur will be cut off from the south?
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Yup, as I suspected, the debris flow clogged the culvert.
As I note in comments, this was one of many washouts waiting to happen.
Gamestop
A good description of what’s been happening with the stock. I was discussing this with some other options traders this morning.
[Update a while later]
More here.
[Late-night update]
Stop laughing about this stock manipulation.
It could be a harbinger of things to come.
[Friday-morning update]
Suck it, Wall Street.
[Bumped]
More Money Down The Drain
I hadn’t realized that the Air Force had given NG over half a billion for The Stick. I hope that this is the last of the money that will be wasted on it.
SN9
Bob Zimmerman has a post up about today’s planned flight.
If it happens, it will have happened on the 35th anniversary of the loss of Challenger, and on my birthday.
[Update a few minutes later]
Looks like winds are too high, so they’ll miss the anniversary.
[Afternoon update]
Well, it looks like they are going to try today. They’re loading propellant, but there seems to be an FAA issue.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Well, here‘s what we know so far.