A reminder that I and Bill Simon will be on The Space Show tonight at 7 PM PDT to discuss our ceremony to commemorate the anniversary. My cell phone allowing…
Category Archives: Philosophy
Forty-Seven Years Ago
The first launch on the way to the surface of the moon. 
It’s also the 71st anniversary of the first nuclear explosion at Trinity test site.

[Update a couple minutes later]
The anniversary of the landing is Wednesday. Bill Simon and I will be on The Space Show at 7 PM PDT to talk about the ceremony we came up with to commemorate it.
Rationalia
More thoughts from Kevin Williamson.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Another piece at New Scientist. It’s a terrible idea.
[Bumped]
Neil Tyson’s “Rationalia”
…would be a terrible place to live.
I agree with the piece, though I don’t like the phrase “credentialed scientist.”
[Saturday-morning update]
I’ve discovered the Missing Link.
Gaia’s Riches
Rediscovering them.
We’re not running out of anything on earth any time soon. That’s no reason not to open up off-planet resources, though.
Generation Ships
Would it be moral to send one?
There are at least two flawed assumptions in this piece.
Hillary’s Email Setup
Only twelve?
But her supporters won’t care; she’s a Democrat. Moreover, she’s a Clinton.
I love this: “How many people who are paying a company to host their data ask the company to stop backing it up? This is where the story gets good.”
[Update later afternoon]
At this point, what difference does it make?
Without the avalanche of distraction, hypocrisy, willful ignorance, and outright lies that the liberal elite and their human centipede press corps employed over the last few decades to ensure their corrupt, mouth-breathing, and/or perverted Democrat heroes are never held accountable, Trump would not be possible. We might still care about quaint things like character, competence, and not being a loathsome piece of human refuse.
But we don’t. Not anymore.
Hillary’s formulation of “Nothing matters, no one cares” is just a little different. For her, it’s “What difference, at this point, does it make?” You know, that comment she made when some congressmen – not including any Democrats – tried to hold her to account for getting four Americans killed and lying to not only their families’ faces but to our faces about it.
And the people who aren’t in Hillary’s trick bag are supposed to care that Trump’s a jerk?
They don’t, by and large. Sure, Trump makes what we conservatives all agree is a distasteful comment insinuating that a federal judge’s rulings would be governed by an inherited characteristic, in this case his ethnicity. The mainstream media goes nuts at how horrible Trump is for assuming that an inherited characteristic might govern someone’s actions in public office. Then a day later, the media experiences a collective climax over the fact that a woman has been nominated, and they think it’s great because that inherited characteristic will govern her actions in public office.
Read the whole thing.
Constitutional Jurisprudence
I agree with this: Clinton would be much worse than Trump, who doesn’t have any principles, whereas hers are terrible.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
When he’s right, he’s right: Yes, the Left is just as, if not more anti-science as “the right.”
Of course, the biggest way in which it is anti-science is in its denial of human nature, and belief in the blank slate.
The Left
Is it closing in on the kill for America?
I’m sure it hopes so. It’s always hated the very idea of it.