He’s got his new proposal to split up California (this time into only three states) on the ballot. If this miracle happens, I’d move to Orange County in South California in a heartbeat.
More thoughts from Ed Morrissey.
Elon’s Not-A Flamethrower
A couple of user experiences, here and here.
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Slightly related: SpaceX is going to attempt a second-stage entry with a giant party balloon.
The FBI’s Fractured Fairy Tale
Sharyl Atkisson (who was herself surveilled by the Obama administration) explains.
Seems like Fractured Fairy Tales were funnier when I was a kid.
The Climate Wars
The (rare) voices of reason:
10. Can we put the polarization genie back in the bottle, on climate or anything else? I really don’t know. But I do wonder how those advocating further radicalization of climate advocacy imagine any of this ends.
11. Making ever more radical demands might be a fine strategy were there someone to negotiate with. But by the reckoning of most prominent climate hawks, there isn’t.
12. Nor does it appear that a more inclusive climate coalition is likely to bring larger congressional majorities. Any Democrat-only climate strategy has to be predicated on not only winning but holding purple/red districts over multiple elections.
13. These are precisely the districts that radicalized climate rhetoric alienates culturally and the green policy agenda punishes economically. Since the failure of cap and trade in 2010, climate activists have taken rhetoric to 11, and what it got them was Trump.
And it will continue to.
Remembering Bobby Kennedy
I remember waking up on a school day to hear that he’d been shot out in California. That was a rough couple months, between it and the earlier MLK assassination. Fifty years on, a useful reminder that much of the history has been rewritten, and that both he and JFK were highly overrated. Teddy was scum, but apparently some Americans have need for royalty.
More thoughts from Ed Driscoll.
Son Of Ansari X-Prize
Doug Messier is less than impressed with Peter’s latest announcement. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time (the 1990s).
Immigrant Children
What would King Solomon do?
Whatever it is, it’s likely smarter than what Jeff Sessions would do.
Anthony Bourdain
I’ve never paid much attention to him, but he seems to have been quite a character. Here’s a foreword he wrote to a book in defense of a guileless restaurant reviewer in flyover country.
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It’s always been such an alien concept to me.
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After a suicide, think of the survivors. and Ben Shapiro asks “How do we stop suicides?”
When I was a kid, one of my classmates’ father shot himself, and she discovered the body. I wondered just how terrible that would be.
The BFR Factory
An interesting story, with bonus fairing halves. I should drive down there some time and check it out myself.
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Also, a new hangar facility, control tower and rocket garden at KSC.
Charles Krauthammer
This is tragic: He has just announced that he has only weeks to live. It’s certainly been a life well lived.
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Here’s a piece he wrote at the turn of the century, lamenting the decline of the space program.