Category Archives: Popular Culture
Buzz Aldrin
He won’t stop talking. He used to call me and bend my ear quite a bit. But he means well.
Humans To Mars
In the wake of last week’s conference, the 2017 report is out.
Dilbert
Jimmy Kimmel
He epitomizes everything that’s wrong with the health-care debate.
To quote the president, no one knew health care could be so complicated.
The Dangers Of Empathy
Thoughts on Jimmy Kimmel and health care, from Jonah Goldberg.
The Urey Variation
Thoughts from Derek Lowe on the abundance of pre-cursors for life in the solar system (and probably universe).
Trump’s Knowledge
George Will says he doesn’t even know what knowledge is:
As president-elect, Trump did not know the pedigree and importance of the “one China” policy. About such things he can be, if he is willing to be, tutored. It is, however, too late to rectify this defect: He lacks what T. S. Eliot called a sense “not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.” His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.
The problem is that he thinks he has “a very good brain.” This is Dunning-Krugerish.
But I’m still relieved that she lost.
The Nye Quadrant
An interesting discussion and link roundup from Judith Curry.
The White House Correspondents Dinner
We’ve been in the final throes of getting bathroom cabinets installed this weekend (and frustrated at our inability to get one of the drawer fronts to align with the others) but if you want a good report on the self-regarding event sans the president, Byron York has it for you.
I was kind of amused at the relief of some of the participants that Hollywood also declined to show up.