He’s been a national catastrophe.
Category Archives: Economics
How We Forgot Pol Pot
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
What Happened To SVB?
A comprehensive explanation, and what it potentially means.
Newsom’s corrupt years of lobbying and donations pay off.
The Silicon Valley Era
…is coming to an end.
It’s Dead, Jim
The latest on the crazy-train fiasco in California.
American Fascism
It’s a variant, of course, of general American Marxism.
Adaptive Reuse
Thoughts from thirteen years ago (but still relevant) on aging and retirement.
I don’t feel old, and I’m not ready either financially or psychologically to retire. There is still a lot to accomplish in space, and things are just starting to get interesting, with possibilities for things I’ve been working to make happen for over four decades. And I’m still hoping for rejuvenation.
The View From California
Still nutty as ever, but even they don’t want to see Newsom as president.
[Update a while later]
California is America’s shadow self.
Student-Loan SCOTUS Arguments
Via Robert Shibley, who has an elegant solution to the problem: “1. Capitalize the schools to loan enough money for 4 years of student loans. 2. No selling the loan notes – let them loan the money and collect it. The end. What do you wanna bet that college suddenly gets rigorous and cheap?”
I’d take that bet.
Masks Worked
They just didn’t stop Covid.