Jeff Foust has a review of the book (in the context of last week’s release of the 2013 ASAP report, which I’ve been meaning to comment on), over at The Space Review.
[Update a while later]
And of course the server at The Space Review would go down the day that he reviews my book. I must have crashed it with my link. đ
How the left stole the word “liberal” a century ago. We need to take it back. I refuse to call them that.
Would it work for anyone other than Sauron?
…or what about slavery?
This always strikes me as one of the more illogical ad hominem arguments against the Founders.
Lileks is unimpressed:
Honestly: would you rather they hadnât invented clothes-washing machines? Radio? Would you rather that one member of a household spend their entire day over a washtub with nothing but the sound from the street through the screen window for company?
Itâs comforting for some, apparently, to think that people in the past just stared slack-jawed at flickering images and rose like zombies when the Consumption Instructions were finished, and spent their life in agitated dissatisfaction until the useless, needless object was acquired and installed. Iâd like to know if these people have microwave ovens.
I’m thinking they write their ignorant snark on computers that they don’t really need.
Can a machine have an @rgasm?
…will never end.
Both sides seem pretty entrenched.
Some thoughts from Judy Curry on the pretense of knowledge, which is akin to the fatal conceit.
Free-market capitalism is a pre-condition for generosity:
Government isnât Santa. Itâs the Grinch.
Think about it: The redistributionist impulse is driven by envy and bitterness. It is an economic position held, not accidentally, most strongly by people who cringe at the sight of a manger scene â by people who resent and suspect the very word âChristmas.â The redistributors are the people culturally inclined to abolishing Christmas from the public sphere, who will spend the solstice wailing in angst if a public-school choir should so much as hum âAway in a Manger,â never mind singing the verboten words âLittle Lord Jesus.â And, in the Grinchiest fashion, they want to take your stuff.
Does anybody really need that many Christmas presents? Is it not the case that, at a certain point, you have enough in your stocking? And who among them has the honesty of Hillary Clinton, who once proclaims that itâs necessary to take things away from us in order to achieve her vision of a better world. If you strap reindeer antlers to your dog while sharing those sentiments, youâre a Seussian villain. Strap donkey ears to yourself while endorsing the same view and youâre the president of these United States.
Heh.
How, it’s been rewritten by the courts over the past century.