Things are about to get ugly.
This may be like Budapest in 1956, or Prague in 1968. How will we, and Britain, respond?
The Glaciers Of Mars
The latest from Bob Zimmerman.
Trump’s “Racist” Tweet
Was it malice, or ignorance? Given the level of his ignorance on so many subjects, I’m going to go with the latter.
Boris Johnson
Will he soon be the most popular leader in the world?
I had lunch with Iain Murray in DC a few weeks ago, who went to school with him. It will be interesting, if nothing else. I asked Iain if May was the worst PM since Chamberlain. “Lord North,” he replied.
[Update Tuesday morning]
With him seeming to be the next PM, the New York Sun is waiting for Boris Johnson.
[Update a couple minutes later]
From the third link:
When it comes to rhetoric and eloquence, he is the anti-Trump.
[Bumped]
[Late-morning update]
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
[Bumped again]
“We Don’t Need Space Colonies”
I don’t know where to start with this ignorant burning of a field of strawmen.
Title IX Insanity
Just wow.
You have to read to see what these insane grifters did to this moron and his innocent wife and kids. It really does read like Fatal Attraction meets a transgender Bonfire of the Vanities. Golden quote: “I just really hate the patriarchy, that’s it.”
Almost all of these people are bonkers.
A Quiet Air Conditioner
I’m going to look into this, despite the fact that it’s “smart.” I hate things that are smart. My A/C does not need to talk to the cloud. It would be nice if they’d make a dumb one that was cheaper, but probably smarts don’t cost much.
AOC’s Tears
She wasn’t weeping over an empty parking lot; she was lachrymose over an empty road, you haters.
I guess it was the lack of children to cry about that was making her cry.
“Rapid Fire Bullet Delivery Systems”
I just saw this tweet:
It reminded me of this old post I wrote in the early aughts. Here is the original, with comments at the time.
Lunar Ice
There may be a lot more of it than we thought. And we were already thinking there’s quite a bit.