I haven’t written much about the balloon shoot-downs
But my summary reaction is no, I don’t think it’s aliens. However, people seem to love to talk about the issue, so here’s a thread for it.
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The Ohio train derailment
What on earth is going on here? A February 3 train derailment in an Ohio town has spewed a bunch of dangerous chemicals into the air: Hazardous material expert Sil Caggiano told WXBN, “We basically nuked a town with chemicals … Continue reading →
Sowell on multiculturalism
Yesterday, commenter “Paul Nachman” kindly drew our attention to this talk by Thomas Sowell on multicultualism. It was given some time in the 1990s, and displays Sowell’s characteristic sharpness of observation and clarity of expression He grasped the problem long … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/14/23
The Met jumps on the “even abolitionist anti-slavery artists were actually celebrating slavery” bandwagon
Heather Mac Donald describes the latest art-world insanity, this time at the Met. You may have to concentrate very very hard to follow it: Why Born Enslaved! has been understood since its creation as an antislavery work. The Met, however, … Continue reading →
When did Bermuda shorts become a thing?
That highly pressing question has been asked in the comments on the open thread, and I will take it on myself to answer it without looking anything up. The Fifties was the height (or length) of the Bermudas craze. Only … Continue reading →
Nikole Hannah-Jones takes on Thomas Sowell
And makes a fool of herself: Other than being Black, what exactly is Sowell’s expertise in slavery or history? Yeah, it’s kind of funny. But it’s also tremendously sad, because millions more young people absorb Hannah-Jones’ utterly mendacious work than … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/13/23
Cancer rising?
Commeter “Banned Lizard” recently linked to this: Dr. Ryan Cole’s Biopsy Results May Explain The Shocking Rise In “Mysterious” Cancers — He Explains There Is Spike Protein “Inside Every Single Cancer Cell” “What’s inside of every cancer cell? Spike protein. … Continue reading →
Rings are in the news
File under “things we don’t understand”: Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it’s located at such a great distance from its dwarf planet parent that it should be impossible. The ring surrounds Quaoar, … Continue reading →
Seymour Hersh and the pipeline – again
[NOTE: See my previous post on the subject. See also this post for some of my previously-expressed thoughts on Hersh, from 2015.] Here’s a piece about Hersh’s pipeline article on the destruction of the Nord pipeline: All the information in … Continue reading →