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.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
If You Believe “Victims” Without Question
…you’ll get more of them.
Yup.
[Friday-morning update]
Meanwhile, after all the adulation of the Kavanaugh accusers, actual gang-rape survivor Lara Logan gets the cold shoulder from the media.
Your Fifteen Minutes Of Hate
From recent experience, Nancy Rommelmann has a guide to surviving it.
Overrated Bands
I have to confess that I’m not even familiar with the music of many of these, but I’m glad to see Springsteen on the list.
Blazing Saddles
It’s 45 years old, and it couldn’t be made today.
We rewatched it a few weeks ago, and it is kind of amazing how politically incorrect it was.
Netflix
I am not into this kind of movie, so most of their offerings will be leaving me cold.
[Update Wednesday afternoon]
Netflix is doing a “wellness” series from (“Goop” loon) Gwyneth Paltrow.
[Bumped]
Hamilton
I’ve never heard anything about the show (including trailers) that have motivated me to want to see it at all, let alone pay big bucks for it. Now, it turns out that it’s historically BS. I know, I’m shocked, too.
Space Settlement Straw Man
I don’t know whether this guy’s ideas for carbon capture make economic sense or not, but this I see a lot of this sort of nonsense:
You quote the Jesuit philosopher Thomas Berry, who writes about our being inseparable from the Earth. That’s not trending in Silicon Valley the way, say, terraforming Mars is.
What the hell do we do when we’ve trashed the hell out of Earth? We escape to another planet! That appears to be the attitude from the tech-os. Well, I find that hugely irresponsible. Why waste billions on going to Mars when we should be putting that into nourishing Earth? It’s your classic mechanical mind gone to the extreme, and I find it abhorrent from people that are meant to be intelligent. We are an integral part of Earth and until we start nurturing her, we are going to go down the gurgler. Maybe a few of those tech-os will end up on a spaceship, but the rest of us won’t.
I don’t know anyone who wants to escape to another planet because we’ve trashed the earth.
To The “Book Community”
“Go f**k yourself.” A righteous rant from Larry Correia.
Book Collections
Thoughts on Marie Kondo from Lileks.
I have too many books, and I’d never have time in this life (barring breakthroughs in life extension) to read or reread them all. I have a twenty-volume encyclopedia of the Illustrated Science And Invention, which may come in handy after the apocalypse, when all knowledge of technology has been lost, and we have to rebuild civilization, so that definitely stays. But I really need to organize all of my books, and papers. My office is a godawful mess.