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I don t do social media (other than this antiquated blogging format), so I miss out on the latest trends. Fortunately Hot Air alerted me to a very recent one: That moment as a kid when you realize that you re definitely straight. For me, it was Barbara Feldon, aka Agent 99 from Get Smart: And my [ ]
Reading all the damning excerpts from the Fauci diary reminds one of how the media, celebrity, and political figures were fawning over him as he proceeded to trash the country s economy, education, and health. While those on the right were unhappy with policies unsupported by data, and obvious illogicalities in many of the governments (federal, [ ]
Back in 2023 I speculated that the reduction of air pollution might contribute significantly to global warming. I played with some data, concluding that based on a cursory look, reduction of sulphur dioxide (which turns into aerosols) might be responsible for half of the observed temperature increases. In 2025 I noted that two articles were [ ]
SpaceX had its IPO back in mid-June, and all the envious couch-sitters freaked out when Elon Musk s wealth hit $1.32 trillion on June 16. Article after article came out, telling us that trillionaires shouldn t exist, and no human being should ever have a trillion dollars. And all the enviers had great plans for spending Musk s [ ]
A fellow wrote an opinion piece over at Daily Wire, and it s quite a stinker: How Many People Did DOGE Really Kill? It starts off reasonably: This week, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna said that Elon Musk should be held accountable for “4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.” [ ]
I understand crediting everyone who contributed to a paper, and I ve been a co-author on a paper with as many as 9 other authors, but at some point I think you have to lop people off (list of authors from Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data): Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai [ ]
Socialism seems to have entranced the younger set, due, no doubt, to the influence of educators who essentially live in a socialist sub-economy in the US. By that I mean that their positions are static and (like most government employees) their payscale is not really influenced by the merits of their work, so they don t [ ]
Ace had a link to Christopher Rufo s video on the (relatively) new drug, ISO. The video showed addicts being completely incapacitated as they lay or stood hunched over on sidewalks in San Francisco. Curious, I looked up this drug, as I had never heard of it (still haven t gotten used to fentanyl being a thing, [ ]
The Trump administration is now talking about restricting student loans to those degree programs that can demonstrate a higher return than they would have without the degree: Under the proposed rule, undergraduate programs will have to prove that degree recipients earn at least as much as a high school graduate before being eligible for student [ ]
Artemis II had a great mission, with everyone relieved that the crew returned safely yesterday. But with all the media coverage of the preparation, launch, flight, and return, I don t recall hearing this one interesting fact (from Wikipedia): On December 11, 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, calling for a U.S.-led program for [ ]
You might think that, based on charts like this (from the CDC): that COVID-19 would be long since a dead story. But sadly, your highly rational thoughts would be greatly underestimating the panic-dredging that our media loves to do: A New, Highly Mutated COVID Variant Called Cicada Is Spreading in the US. Know These Symptoms [ ]