Mickey Kaus on why it still matters. Yes, he is a symptom of the deep corruption of business, national, and world leadership.
Trump’s Nuclear Threat
Heh. It apparently scared Dorian off from hitting Mar A Lago.
Starship/SuperHeavy Progress
An interesting report on doings in Cocoa Beach from Teslerati.
Slavery
No, America did not invent it.
Such is the state of our educational system.
Brexit And Trump
How I learned to stop worrying about the first, and love the other.
The left seems determined to push us into Trump’s and BoJo’s arms.
Keto Cooking Problems
I wanted to make some salmon croquettes with some leftover king salmon, but all the keto recipes recommend substituting almond flour for the bread crumbs. Problem: I’m allergic to nuts, including almonds.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, here’s another option, which would be fine, except I don’t have any on hand: pork rind crumbs.
“Born That Way”
This study does not prove that people aren’t born that way. Of course there is no “gay gene.” That would make no evolutionary sense. It has to be a complex of them that, combined, cause it. Plus this seems to ignore pre-natal environment. There’s some evidence that this is a cause as well.
[Friday-morning update]
And then there’s this: “Genetics may explain up to 25% of same-sex behavior.”
Landing On Mars
Elon is starting to scout out sites.
Email Problems
I’ve got a problem, that my system administrator won’t help me with. My Trash folder on the server has grown to several gigabytes, and there is no way for me to empty it. It slows down getting and deleting mail, but Thunderbird crashes when I even try to load it. Here is the helpful email I got when I asked to simply delete it on the server (which I can’t do, because I don’t have root privileges–on my own hosted server).
“You’ll need to access your email accounts with a proper email client from your PC to clear them out. We can’t just delete the mail from the server, then the indexes are messed up. You need to be properly emptying your trash.
You have multiple Gigs of mail in the trash folders on the Simberg account. “
Note that this is nothing I don’t know, except I don’t understand why it would mess up indexes to delete the trash. Is that true?
[Update a while later]
OK, Tbird crashes, but I seem to be able to access it from Evolution. But there is no obvious way to empty it, other than to Expunge, which seems a little drastic, but maybe that’s what I have to do. And it doesn’t load all of the headers; it gets stuck at 99%.
[Update a while later]
Well, I hit “Empty Trash” in Evolution, and it seems to have done the job (even though Evolution says it’s still working on it).
OK, Evolution thinks it’s finished now. My next problem is that it’s not properly displaying my inbox. But now my web interface is much more manageable.
Boris
I love all the hysteria about the “death of Democracy” from people who want to remain in thrall to unelected bureaucrats on the Continent.