RIP.
Both California and the nation would be better places if he, rather than Barbara Boxer, had ascended to the Senate in 1992.
Ellen Page
These are worse than Heinlein’s Crazy Years.
The War On The Electoral College
…has only just begun.
If you oppose the Electoral College, or the fact that states get an equal number of senators, you literally hate the United States of America.
The Real Fascist Threat
It was never Trump; it was corporate power.
The UFO Phenomenon
Is it about to get real?
An Auto Race
Space Transports
Clark Lindsey has a big round up of all that’s going on these days. We are in exciting times, other than SLS/Orion.
Walter Williams
RIP. Thomas Sowell remembers him.
And here is his last column.
[Late-morning update]
More at Battleswarm blog.
McDonald’s Fries
A history, and a recipe. I disagree with this, though:
His cholesterol was over 300, comfortably in the danger zone for heart attacks. Lack of self-control aside, it was fatty foods that nearly killed him. Thus, when he emerged from the hospital, he did so on a one-man mission to fight Big Fat.
It was not the fat that nearly killed him. We now have abundant evidence that the problem with McDonald’s fries was not the tallow, but the potatoes themselves. I’ve long advocated that, given that the company is the largest cattle rancher in the world, it should go back to tallow, and get rid of the unhealthy seed oils.
What I don’t understand about the recipe is why it uses Crisco, with just a little tallow added, presumably for flavor. It would probably be much better, and certainly healthier, to simply fry them in pure tallow.
Stovepipes
A story from Wayne Hale about the organizational dangers.
I’m more optimistic than he is that we are going to normalize space transportation, though.