Loren Grush scored an interview with Beth Moses about her recent trip to space.
I’m always amused at people who say that no one will want to do this twice, or that the market is limited. The only real limit to the market is the affordability.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Tucker Carlson
The attacks on him are absurd and hypocritical. You can tell he’s over the target.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related: Boyden Gray has filed a complaint to the IRS against Media Matters. They should lose their status.
[Update a while later]
It’s time for conservatives to choose: Fight back or surrender.
Stormy Daniels
Well, this should be the final nail in the coffin of Avenatti’s presidential ambitions. How could he ever win without this great woman standing behind him?
Captain Marvel
Treacher has a round up of all the misogyny in the reviews. Because obviously, if you think the flick is a stinker, you hate women.
[Noon update]
What you’ve all been waiting for: The vital review from The Babylon Bee.
[Friday update]
OK, here’s Sonny Bunch’s. The movie sounds like a real stinker.
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Michael Jackson
Why it’s not OK to listen to his music, but still OK to watch Woody Allen movies.
It’s no skin off my nose. I never deliberately listened to any of his music.
Young Talent
This was a few years ago; the woman is 19 now, I think. Stick around for a shred off between her and Laura Lace in the next one.
The Smirking Bias Of The Media
Thoughts on language, from Howie Carr.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The media will help re-elect Trump. Which is ironic, of course.
[Update Monday morning]
Bill Maher will help Trump get re-elected. These people who hate Trump sure seem to be working a lot harder on his re-election than I am.
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The Left is dancing on a powder keg. This derangement is a perfect example of Haidt’s thesis that while we understand them perfectly well, they have no idea how we think.
Trump’s CPAC Speech
I listened to some of it, but I really, viscerally hate listening to Trump for long. But Nick Gillespie (!) was impressed:
All in all, it was, in the words of Daniel Dale, the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, “one of the least-hinged speeches Trump has given in a long time.” It was indeed all over the place but like the weirdly wide-ranging and digressive speech in which he declared a national emergency, it was also an absolute tour de force, laying out every major point of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats (abortion, the Second Amendment, and taxes, among other things) while tagging the latter aggressively as socialists who will not only end the private provision of health care but take over the energy sector too. Those charges take on new life in the wake of the announcement of the GND and comments, however short-lived, by Democrats such as Kamala Harris, who at one point recently called for an end to private health care. And over 100 House Democrats have signed on to a plan that would end private health insurance in two years. For all the biting criticism and dark humor in today’s speech, Trump has mostly ditched the “American Carnage” rhetoric that marked his first Inaugural Address, pushing onto liberals and Democrats all the negativity and anger that used to surround him like the dust cloud surrounds Pigpen in the old Peanuts cartoons. “We have people in Congress right now who hate our country,” he said. “We can name every one of them. Sad, very, very sad.”
At moments, he seemed to be workshopping his themes and slogans for 2020. “We believe in the American Dream, not the socialist nightmare,” he averred at one point. “Now you have a president who finally standing up for America.” The future, he said “does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom. I’ve said it before and will say it again: America will never be a socialist country.” That’s a line that may not work forever, but it will almost certainly get the job done in 2020.
As previously noted, the media is going to re-elect Trump. Because they still don’t understand how they got Trump.
Trump’s Style
I agree with this, but the piece seems to have fizzled out at the end.
Space Settlement
A bi-partisan bill has been introduced in the Senate to make it a national goal (and to extend ISS to 2030). More thoughts after I read the draft legislation.