PLANETS I PROMISED, PLANETS YOU GET. LOTS AND LOTS OF PLANETS [VIP]:Sky Candy and the Planets: It’s Complicated.

WHAT IF THEY’RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT THEY THINK WE WANT? Memo to Elon and Vivek: What Are The Incentives That Drive Inefficient Government?

CLEANUP ON AISLE DAMASCUS: Interesting Times: Assad’s Gestapo Didn’t Clean Up Before They Fled.

THIS WEEK’S SKY CANDY IS ALL ABOUT THE PRETTY STUFF [VIP]: Sky Candy: Just The Sweets.

Sorry, forgot to mark it.

HOW TO BECOME A WRITER. AGAIN:The Problem With Inspiration

This is at Sarah Hoyt’s Mad Genius Club, a worthy blog for anyone interested in writing.

THE BEST THING IN ASTRONOMY RECENTLY IS WHAT WE CAN’T SEE [VIP]: Sky Candy: What You See Depends On How You See.

[VIP] DOES THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WHAT IT’S DOING? A Memo to Messieurs Musk and Ramaswamy.

SPECIAL STARSHIP EDITION: Friday Sky Candy.

Yeah, it’s VIP, I forgot.

I did title it Sky Candy. Just got it wrong here. I’ve got to have a talk with the editor…

WE LIVE IN ROBERT HEINLEIN’S WORLD: Elon Musk Wants to Save the World — and More.

ITS A PUZZLEMENT: Undersea Cables and Natural Gas Pipelines: A Bunch of Odd Coincidences in the Baltic

AFTER ANOTHER PEACEFUL REVOLUTION: We Are Living in Interesting Times.

A LESSON FOR EVERYONE[VIP]:What Government CAN’T Do IS As Important As What It CAN

I REALLY LIKED USING THE WORD “ERUCTATION” THIS TIME [VIP]: Eye Candy in Honor of the Gassiest Week in the News

INSTEAD OF ASSUMING TRUMP IS A FOOL, ASK YOURSELF WHAT IF HE’S SMART [VIP]: What comes next?

[VIP] IF THEY CAN DO IT FOR YOU, THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU: The Lesson of Robespierre

I NEED SOME [VIP] JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA MUSIC HERE: Post-Election Statue of Liberty Eye Candy.

“I HATE THE ARISTOCRATICY, MAN” [VIP]: Well-Designed Systems Self-Correct

(Not very classical reference here,)

IT DOESN’T NEED AN OVERT CONSPIRACY: An Election Denial of Service Is More Insidious Than Outright Fraud

A BREAK FROM THE ELECTION DOOMSCROLLING [VIP]: Social Media Is Not All DOOM

WHY A DOG LIES IN THE SUN, LICKING…: ‘Because He Can.’

Something must be done about “qualified immunity.”

THE ROOT OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT [VIP]:‘But Dear — He’s Just Not Our Kind!’

I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY SPACE PORN ANYMORE: lest the prigs at Google demonetize the site. So here is Pre-Election Astronomical Eye-Candy

A VIP article.

STAR PICTURES ARE COOL [VIP]: GOLDEN AGE OF SPACE PORN.

COMETS AND AURORAE: Space Porn From the Ground Up [VIP]

I’M SURE THE FBI WILL GET RIGHT ON THIS:

Trump supporters in PA are getting threatening letters not to vote for Trump.

“We know where you live, you are in the data base," "there is no knowing what may happen," and "your family may be impacted, your cat may get shot." pic.twitter.com/elZUq5um9k

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) October 18, 2024