I disagree with this. He seems to be operating under the delusion that NASA is ever going to get anyone to Mars, and seemingly ignores the people with money who are working to do so.
The Hugo Wars
On the sad state of science fiction:
Wherever they emerge, social-justice warriors claim to be champions of diversity. But they always reveal themselves to be relentlessly hostile to it: they applaud people of different genders, races, and cultures just so long as those people all think the same way. Theirs is a diversity of the trivial; a diversity of skin-deep, ephemeral affiliations.
This is one of the reasons I haven’t read as much as I did when I was younger. And sadly, the situation is similar on many college campuses.
Barack Obama
A moral and historical ignoramus.
It’s not like it’s anything new.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Crusades and other “root causes.”
[Friday-morning update]
A Jew examines why Obama will not name Islam.
The Auto Bail Out
It’s official, the taxpayers took a $17B bath on it:
It did not have to be this way. Obama violated numerous bankruptcy laws when he strong-armed GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy, all to the benefit of United Auto Workers members. Non-union employees of the firms got screwed. And so did taxpayers.
That “every penny was paid back” was just another lie from the guy who said you can keep your doctor and your plan.
That “5.6% Unemployment Rate”
It’s a Big Lie.
Brought to you by the people who said you could keep your doctor and your plan.
Artificial Intelligence
Our immortality, or our extinction?
I think that’s a matter of how you define “us.”
Lunar Property Rights
The FAA is taking the first step toward granting them (in a sense). It doesn’t say how big an exclusion zone would be provided. But this is unprecedented. I assume this topic will come up at the conference tomorrow or Thursday.
Headed To DC
I’m actually on the plane from Dallas, and should arrive in less than an hour. My first flight didn’t have wifi.
Angelina Jolie
…takes a stand against ISIS, in Iraq.
Good for her.
The Ukelele
My dad had one, with a Burl Ives book.
When I was growing up, we pronounced it Youkuhlaylee, but as the article points out, Hawai’ian is the most phonetic language in the world (because the written language was invented to be so by the missionaries). So the proper pronunciation is (as the article notes) Ookaylaylay. Also, Honolulu is Hohnohlooloo, not Hahnahlooloo, which is the popular mainland haole pronunciation.