I’ve been saying this for years. The problem isn’t coming up with enough calories; it’s about feeding people a healthy diet. But the calorie-counting insanity is going to cause poor health all over, not just in the West.
Seinfeld
Ashe Schow writes that now it’s become the latest thing to be problematic.
Mitt Romney
Thoughts from Roger Kimball on his “pathetic crusade” against Trump. I agree that the criticism, particularly after he got Trump’s endorsement for Senate, was a churlish act of ingratitude. As I noted on Twitter, Trump was right; if Romney had gone after con-man Obama the way that he went after Trump, he’d have beaten him.
The 2018/2019 Launch Market
A review, and predictions from Bob Zimmerman.
And Then There Were None
Deep Space Industries has been acquired by Bradford Space. I had a brief exchange with Ian about this over the weekend. I wonder if they bought out Luxembourg’s stake? It would seem that it was premature to start an asteroid-mining company.
The Trump Presidency
“How it made me a better American.”
I will continue to praise Trump when he does something good, and criticize him when he behaves stupidly and boorishly.
[Update a few minutes later]
Per Karol’s comments about her disappointment with herself over not being more concerned about Obama’s depredations on the law and decency, a few months ago I started to put together a list of similarities between Obama and Trump, and there are more of them than either of their supporters want to admit:
- Reverse Midas Touch
- Cult
- Inarticulate Foot-in-Mouth Off Prompter
- Indifference/Hostility To Constitution
- Charismatic To Selective Audience
- Reckless Disregard For The Truth
- Travel Expenses
- Dunning Kruger
- Despised by members of his own party
Feel free to add in comments.
[Late-evening update]
I want to thank all those in comments who proved my point about the blind supporters of Trump being unwilling to recognize the similarities with Obama. I hope some Obama supporters will weigh in as well, to reinforce it.
The New Space Race
Nothing new for people who have been following this, but Jeff Foust has a good overview of the current state of play for SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Ultima Thule
Congratulations to Alan Stern and the New Horizons team. The flyby appears to have been a success, we now know that it’s bilobal, and it didn’t have a light curve because the spacecraft was (coincidentally) coming toward its spin axis. Not enough data yet to know if it has a 15-hour or 30-hour period, but we’ll start getting high-res pictures tomorrow. It will take two year to download all the data, though, to give similar resolution that we got for Pluto.
[Update a while later]
High(er) res tomorrow, not high-res.
A New Year’s Tip
The American Mediocracy
…is exhausted. As I’ve often noted, both Trump and Brexit were revolts against an unimpressive “elite” who thought themselves our moral and intellectual superiors, with no basis.
But like the Bourbons, the continue to know nothing, and forget nothing.