GOOD. COOLING DOES MORE HARM THAN WARMING. Ash from Tonga volcano reaches record altitude but climate cooling unlikely.
But this may not be over.
Archive for 2022
January 18, 2022
SPACE: Paragon snares $100M lunar space station deal. “Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corp. says it has finalized its contract with aerospace giant Northrop Grumman to supply life-support systems for a planned orbiting lunar space station — and revealed the total value of the contract exceeds $100 million. The contract for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), which NASA plans to launch as soon as 2024, is the biggest single contract ever for Paragon, said Grant Anderson, co-founder, president and CEO of Paragon.”
ADMINISTRATORS ARE ALWAYS PURE OF HEART: Misconduct in research administration: What is it? How widespread is it? And what should we do about it?
ERASURE: Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials? Although if they got rid of the guy in the LiMu Emu commercials I’d be fine with that.
CONTACT TRACING WAS A WASTE OF TIME BY APRIL 2020: California throws more money at COVID-19 contact tracing, but is it too late? Maybe May, if you’re charitable.
The thing is, contact tracing, or border closures, are only useful to control a disease that’s in limited circulation. Once it’s everywhere in substantial numbers, there are so many cases that aren’t caught that it’s — at best — a waste of time and money. And yet both are still with us.
FEEL THE HATE FLOWING THROUGH YOU: “The saddest part of the comment is the beginning: ‘Maybe Democratic voters could hate Republicans….’ That seems to mean that the goal is hate. The Post needs to stop interfering with the flow of hatred. The commenter thinks that Democrats have a capacity for hate, but it’s underdeveloped — underfed by The Washington Post.”
The goal is hate. The left will happily do a 180 on policies, but will always hate the people who disagree with them at the moment. It’s the politics of sad, self-justifying losers.
AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE REBUILDING OF NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL.
“Rebuilding” covers a lot of territory, however: “Plans are afoot to turn Notre Dame cathedral, once it’s restored, into what some have called a ‘politically correct Disneyland.’”
I AM STARTING TO GET OVER THE CRUD, BUT I MUST SHARE THIS: If You Buy Only One Book This Year, Buy Cloud Castles by Dave Freer.
IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR THE NEW YEAR.
INSIDE EVERY LIBERAL IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT: New poll finds 45% of Democrats want the unvaccinated sent to internment camps, 59% okay with just house arrest.
(Classical reference in headline.)
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
REVIEW: Springfield Armory Hellcat.
I STILL THINK IT’S MOSTLY THE PRESS: Trump Aides See the Hand of McConnell in Promoting the Idea of a Feud With DeSantis.
FASTER, PLEASE: Tennessee Legislature Taking Up K-12 School Vouchers.
TOP SELLER: MTP-6 Tactical Pen – Military-Inspired Multitool Pen. #CommissionEarned
WASHINGTON & LEE CHANGES COURSE, ALLOWS STUDENT CAMPAIGNING AFTER SHUTTING DOWN COLLEGE GOP BEFORE VA. ELECTION. Students couldn’t campaign for Youngkin before the election based on W&L’s bogus 501(c)(3) reasoning. Last week W&L finally changed the policy – the day before Youngkin took office, which seems like all kinds of coincidence.
Reminder: W&L President Bill Dudley is the one who amusingly said last year that universities had been unfairly dragged into the culture war.
ROGER SIMON: Djokovic Actually the Big Winner in Australia—and So Are We.
Australia’s schizoid and sadistic treatment of Djokovic became just another symbol of this multi-national mess. But it could mark its opera bouffe apotheosis.
That is why I agree with Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club, a Sydney resident and old friend of mine, that a tremendous backlash is brewing in Oz and, I would certainly add, here in the United States as well, once COVID is over.
And, as I wrote earlier and many others have surmised, the Omicron variant is heralding that end, behaving as most viruses do at the end of a pandemic, weakening as it becomes more communicative. Soon enough it will be another irritation we must face, but rarely a fatal one.
The problem engendered by this is that much of the leadership in Sydney and Washington will be very reluctant to let go of it.
We see that all around us, particularly in the Biden administration where they cling to COVID-19 just as Obama claimed conservatives clung to their guns and religion, only more so.
Resistance, however, is building. What will be its watchword? Who will be the first to say “Mr. Biden, tear off that mask!”
Fernandez put the situation this way: “Already the signs of political disillusion are plain to see, from Joe Biden’s collapse in the polls, the SCOTUS rejection of his vaccine mandate, Boris Johnson’s slipping hold on power to Novak Djokovic’s amazing one-man stand against Australia’s vaccine visa policy: a worldwide storm is brewing and it will break over the political scene in 2022.”
Related: Australian Government Admits Letting Djokovic Stay Would’ve Undermined COVID Police State.
I THINK THE STRATEGY OF ENDLESS REPEATED SHOTS OF THE SAME VACCINE HAS WORN THIN: Israel study: 4th vaccine shows limited results with omicron.
#RESIST: A reader sends this from Joe Biden’s backyard:
And another comes from Greenfield, Indiana:
The #Resistance is growing!
UPDATE: From the comments: “What would be more inspiring is photos of folks signing up for local party positions and volunteer slots.” Well, there’s no reason people can’t do both. And I’ve certainly encouraged that. This is a good tactic as far as it goes, but it’s a tactic, not a revolution.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Biden administration approves college students getting COVID relief checks.