History, Space, Technology and Society

Shackleton

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We watched a documentary about the expedition last night. I was struck for the first time by the parallels with Apollo 13: A near disaster from which they recovered only through ingenuity and endurance (the ship was aptly named).

I only mentioned him in the book in terms of the probably apocryphal ad in the Times of London. If I ever do a new edition, I’ll probably talk more about that, as I did with Magellan.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Defunding The Police

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Is it libertarian?

Why no, no it’s not. As he points out, there are a number of things we could do to solve the problem that are libertarian, but that isn’t one of them.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Replacing the police department with a “transformative new model.”

Good luck with that.

[Another update a couple minutes later]

Defunding the police would be a disaster for black people in particular.

Why yes, yes it would.

[Noon update]

Four questions for the Democrats, the media, and BLM.

Don’t expect them to have any good answers.

History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Rosenstein

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I watched some of the testimony this morning. Basically, he played dumb bureaucrat who got played by the FBI. In so doing, he threw McCabe under the bus. He’ll be a key witness at trial. The deer-in-the-headlights look as Ted Cruz excoriated him was amusing.

I wish that I was surprised that the Democrats attempted to downplay what happened. They used to pretend to care about the use of foreign-surveillance techniques to spy on Americans. I guess Orange Man Bad covers all sins.

[Thursday-morning update]

Rosenstein: I’m accountable, but not responsible.

What a mealy-mouthed twerp.

[Bumped]

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