Shouldn’t we solve poverty first?
No.
Trigger Warnings
Some thoughts on fragile feminists, from Roger Kimball. Their parents should be embarrassed, particularly if they’re paying for this.
The Former “Law Professor”
he would have failed my constitutional law class if he had tried to justify such sweeping authority to categorically rewrite existing law and confer benefits Congress never provided as “prosecutorial discretion.”
I think his reputation as a Constitutional (or any other kind of) scholar is highly overrated. It’s nice to see the courts finally stepping up to rein in these power grabs.
[Update a while later]
The “I” word is really the only remedy to this kind of overreach.
But partisan politics takes precedence over Congressional prerogatives.
Bill Nye
The Constitution guy?
I can't decide what Bill Nye is more ignorant of — science, or the Constitution: http://t.co/h1Oi4EBpR8
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 26, 2015
Revising The History Of Iraq
No, Bush didn’t lie about WMD:
Yes, I keep repeating this stuff. Because it bears repeating. In Iraq, Obama took a war that we had won at a considerable expense in lives and treasure, and threw it away for the callowest of political reasons. In Syria and Libya, he involved us in wars of choice without Congressional authorization, and proceeded to hand victories to the Islamists. Obama’s policy here has been a debacle of the first order, and the press wants to talk about Bush as a way of protecting him. Whenever you see anyone in the media bringing up 2003, you will know that they are serving as palace guard, not as press.
Yup.
Soft Dictatorships
It’s a good thing what happened in Venezuela could never happen here:
Hmmmm… let’s see: propaganda? Check. Censorship? Check. Co-opting potential critics with material rewards? Check. Control over media through various civil or criminal means? Check. As for hiring trolls to flood comments and vandalizing opposition media sites, that can all be accomplished through private groups, without the need for government fingerprints.
Somehow, it reminds me of this piece I wrote a few years ago.
[Late-afternoon update]
Sorry, second link was missing. I’ve fixed it.
To Fix Higher Education
It’s absurd that they come close to outnumbering faculty, let alone when it actually happens.
The Case Against Science
“Much of it, perhaps half, is untrue.”
The incentives are quite screwed up.
Corruption In The Russian Space Industry
Bob Zimmerman says that it seems to be returning to the Soviet era. The Russians never learned how markets and competition actually work. As he notes, it’s not clear that this will help with their endemic quality issues.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Mind boggling financial irregularities at Roscosmos.”
The Age Of Ultron
…and the point of human existence.
When I was a kid, I read a lot of comic books and (even more) SF. I think it prepared me for life, particularly the future, much more so than people who denigrated it at the time (and now). They’re the poorer for it themselves.