Tag: Carbon Cult
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Good work.
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump committed the most hideous crime since 1945. Now he’s doing some unquestionably good things in the energy realm, and some unquestionably bad things on the foreign war front. On the energy front, Chris Wright is working…
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No mother-in law or cliff here!
Trump’s first term set a historical record for maximum evil and genocide. Trump’s second term is mixed bad and good. Trump’s energy policy is PURELY GOOD and CRITICALLY NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL. Previous admins, both R and D, were moving ahead steadily to make war on this country. Bomb all the dams, cover all the…
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Small and large mother-in-law / Cadillac
Small MIL/Caddy: Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations. The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge’s order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A. Cadillac: I hate to see any shortwave station abandoned. I used to enjoy shortwave. Mother-in-law: VOA never fulfilled…
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That’s exactly the problem
Columbia Journalism Review takes an inside look at Kirn’s ‘County Highway’ publication. They focus on the close connection with RFK, which happened after I stopped reading it. I subscribed at first, hoping it would have the qualities of a real newspaper. After reading the first two editions, I decided it fails the test in every…
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Rare wisdom
Via RealClear, one economics writer actually understands the New Deal! This is unique! Nearly all modern writers on politics and economics either hate FDR because he was “commie” or hate FDR because he was “fascist”. Nobody understands why the New Deal worked, why it created such long-lasting fierce loyalty. = = = = = START…
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50 year unsync
In 1958, TV Radio Life magazine interviewed Martin Klein, who hosted a weekly science program on LA television station KCOP, listed as ‘independent’. It’s still there, still on channel 13 with the same call letters. They asked Klein to predict 50 years into the future. How would we live in 2008? Klein worked for Cohu…
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Could have been a good idea
Via RealClear: The Methodists are trying a new way to maintain a central managing body while allowing more modularity. Instead of a universal orthodoxy, regions will be allowed to set their own standards for SOME hot-button stuff like homosexuality and women pastors. In any system, living or mechanical or social, modularity is crucial. = =…
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Not entirely predictable
This is one of the EXTREMELY RARE cases where journalists actually work both ways. Via Nieman, journalists have universally derided Trump’s Napoleonic effort to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This, of course, is more predictable than gravity. Journalists NEVER go along with anything ordered by Official Wrong Party. Locally, journalists…
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Canada does it FIRST.
I’ve been darkly watching China, Russia, and India zoom ahead with nuclear while the WEFtern “countries” deprive ourselves of clean power. We bomb our hydro dams and turn off our nukes. We started to plan small reactors in 1954 under the Rural Electrification Admin, created by Henry Wallace. Then we dropped all reactors and clean…
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Unhappy 50th, “global warming”
Unhappy 50th, global warming! Or Climate Crisis or Climate Emergency or Climate Chaos or whatever you’re calling yourself at this hour. Before October 26, 1975, actual scientists (and government and media and schools) UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY that the weather is an infinitely complex set of local, global and solar cycles and random changes. Before October 26,…
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Unsurprising discovery
Well, it’s unsurprising in one way. It’s also distinctly fascinating, possibly starting a revolution in the scientific understanding of brains and nerves. Bacteria and other one-celled critters often use wires to connect with each other. Now some brain researchers have found that neurons use the same type of tubes to pass atoms directly. This is…
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Coal is back!
Via Shepstone, Trump’s Dept of Energy is taking a huge number of general and specialized actions to stop the abandonment of coal and restore some recently closed coal power plants. The actions also reinforce a secondary use of coal in the processing of steel. If the coking plants are gone, we can’t reshore steel. Trump…
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Speaking of Gaian suckers…..
Via RealClear: Biologists in Texas have found a rare crossbreed of a bluejay and a greenjay. The two species aren’t as closely related as their names would imply, but they can crossbreed. Instead of simply finding the cross interesting and unusual, the UTexas biologists had to invoke “climate emergency” as the Universal Cause Of Everything.…
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Oldest sucker filter
A preacher has predicted that the Rapture will occur tomorrow, 9/23. Raptures and apocalypses are unquestionably the oldest Sucker Filter, the oldest tool for selecting the most gullible followers. Every single one has failed. Often a prophet will “revise” the rapture several times in a row. Each failure and revision sorts the suckers at a…
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Won’t happen
The “city” “government” could solve two problems at once with One Weird Trick, but they won’t. REAL problem: Bums are lighting campfires everywhere for cooking, even in 95-degree weather. Bums cause wildfires everywhere, keeping the fire dept busy and occasionally getting out of control. The “city” doesn’t see this as a problem unless the fires…
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