Regulation kills.
[Update a few minutes later]
Distillers have to fight the FDA bureaucracy to produce hand sanitizer.
The Media
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
Saving America
Pornhub Premium is going temporarily free to encourage you to stay home.
It’s good marketing; it may get people to sign up after this is over. Wonder what it will do to their server/bandwidth costs, though?
SpaceX
…has just been awarded a contract to supply the Gateway (assuming the Gateway ever actually exists).
Surprise, Surprise
Strzok prioritized his illegal spying on the Trump campaign over subpoenaing Weiner’s laptop.
Aussie Accent(s)
My sense is that to the degree that they have different accents, it’s class based, not regional. That is, most of the people I meet are probably upper middle, whereas someone Rugby Union might speak strine so thick that it would be almost unintelligible to me.
Federalism
After too many decades, almost a century, the people have pulled aside the curtain, and the man behind it has been exposed.
The State Of The Bar Community
…is dire.
I’ve never frequented them much; I think the price for a drink at one is ridiculous, but they’re an important element of culture.
Factory Farms
Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
Say Uncle
My deepest condolences to the long-time gun blogger on the sudden loss of his beloved wife.