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.
Home Defense
News you can use: Good shotguns for not a lot of money. I’ve been thinking about getting a Mossberg.
The Revolution
“The Board also voted to change the name of Roosevelt Middle School, even though no one was sure whether it was named after Theodore Roosevelt or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Better safe than sorry. By the way, the Board does not have new names chosen for the schools. It just wants to get rid of the old ones.”
Just number them. That’s what the Soviets did, after all.
End Run
Trump may not be able to tweet any more, but Big Tech can’t stop him from sending emails. Here‘s the new website.
Recipe Bloggers
Why they make you read so far to get to the recipe.