Americans (and westerners in general) really are different.
Yes, Judeo-Christianity is a fundamentally different philosophy and basis for society.
The Arctic Circle
American warships are operating above it. Because Russia.
But remember, Trump is Putin’s stooge.
Wilbur Ross
Looks like he may be on the way out. That’s too bad, from a space perspective; he was extremely enthusiastic about space.
Space Force
Pence is talking about it today at an event sponsored by the WaPo. Here’s a description of the Pentagon’s current plans.
Keith Ellison
I’ve always been amazed at the notion that Democrats thought this scumbag would be a good statewide candidate, even in Minnesota, but their protective mechanisms have finally broken down.
An Intact Shipwreck
The world’s oldest, found deep in the Black Sea.
Have to say, whatever else you think about the Grauniad, they have great science articles.
The Problem With The “Blue Wave”
It’s the political correctness, stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: Math professors at UCLA must pay obeisance to political correctness to get tenure.
Aaaanold Schwarzenegger
…has become a girlie man.
A Technological Tragedy
An interesting post on unintended consequences.
Sorry for the light posting, but I’m back in Florida, in the last throes of getting the house on the market.
Fauxcahontas’s DNA
It shows that she’s heap big authentic.
[Update Wednesday afternoon]
Warren’s Clintonian smoke signals.
It’s worth noting that Warren brought on a lot of these tropes about Siberian Americans with her “Powwow Chow.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Actual descendant of Pocahontas to Warren: Apologize.
I suspect that the fraud will keep doubling down.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
Cherokee Nation to Elizabeth Warren: Drop dead.
Unlikely she’ll do that, either, but rarely has someone so publicly pwned themselves.
[Saturday morning]
America is a wonderfully mixed-up place. You meet somebody named Qiáng MacFarland Lopez and the safe bet is that he’s an American. And many of us have had the peculiar experience of feeling a strong sense of kinship with a culture that is not our own. (That’s me in a Swiss train station.) “Multiculturalism” is an intellectual dead end, but culture is not, and there is much to be said for learning Chinese or Hebrew or Nahuatl, reading the great Spanish novels, or coming to understand Buddhism as something more than a feel-good corporate trend.
To consider oneself fixed within the bounds of one’s own specific patrimony is an intellectual poverty. But Senator Warren has not dug into Cherokee history, language, or culture. She simply used the fiction of her Cherokee identity to get something she wanted — a little political leg up on the rest of the sanctimonious white ladies. That’s cheap, vulgar, and wrong — and the Cherokee are right to be annoyed by it. And if Texas Democrats really want a Hispanic name on the ballot to put up against Senator Cruz, then they might consider — here’s a radical thought! — nominating someone of Hispanic heritage as their candidate. As for Rachel Dolezal — my best guess is that being Rachel Dolezal is its own punishment.
I don’t think the Democrats understand how sane people view all this stuff (not to mention all the gender insanity).
[Bumped]