How do they know???
May 252021
May 252021
The case for requiring gun licenses
Where Vox argues that a Constitutionally protected *right* should require a license. They argue that “licensing works.” Because… sure. Illinois, for example, has the FOID card system, where you need to have an expensive license to buy a gun. And to buy ammo. And to *hold* a gun. And if there;s anywhere that you think of when you think “boy, gun control sure makes people safe,” it’s Chicago.
Do you have a blogging license, citizen? Consider carefully before posting a comment without checking with your local sheriff.
Here’s a good rant
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May 252021
Amazon spent half a billion dollars getting the right to and producing a Tolkein series. And as more information creeps out about it, the more it seems likely to be a mess. I’d *love* to see a fantastic series set in Numenor, with the designs of props, locations and character true to the source *and* coherent with the Peter Jackson films. I’d *love* to see a series set in Numenor that has intriguing characters and good plots. But it’s starting to look like what we’ll actually get is woke nonsense skewed towards raking in that sweet, sweet Chinese money. If that is indeed what happens… I hope that Amazon loses money on a vast unprecedented scale.
Just Some Guy rips some of the recent nonsense about trying to mangle what Tolkein clearly described.
May 242021
Only in the entertainment industry:
Kevin Spacey is preparing to return to the screen playing the role of a detective investigating the case of a man wrongly suspected of paedophilia https://t.co/zG2DWH7Gao
— The Times (@thetimes) May 24, 2021
May 242021
From the color-value reversed Stormfront:
It Turns Out, All Those ‘Woke’ White Allies Were Lying
Right off the bat, consider that they seem surprised that “woke” anybody turned out to be shallow performative causeheads. The rest of us have known that for *decades.* But their real problem is this:
Recent polling numbers show that the support for Black Lives Matter has severely declined. … However, white people’s support has declined to levels lower than they were a year ago.
The author seems to believe that the cause of a decline in trust in the BLM movement is that white people are inherently evil. Allow me to retort:
May 242021
The British Interplanetary Society famously proposed manned missions to the moon both before and after World War II. These designs would *not* have worked, but that’s not the point. The “Collier’s” series space program vehicles would not have worked either, but they all served the purpose of showing that the physics supported the notion of manned space flight, that it *could* and *should* be done. And anythign that actually happens had to start somewhere.
May 242021
Mortons has posted a preview “sampler” of my “Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird” bookazine. You can take a look and see if it’s for you.
It is available directly through the publisher for £8.99 (Approx $12.41 or €10.34). It is also available through Amazon for pre-order for $12.99. Direct from the publisher should be available sooner; from Amazon, lower mailing cost if you’re in the US.
May 232021
This was from 2017.
May 232021
I got about ten minutes into it before I remembered that I had other things to do. *Any* other things to do.
May 222021
Virgin Galactic launches third successful spaceflight
Spaceplane VSS Unity reached an altitude of 55.45 miles, according to the company. …
Meanwhile, SpaceX is launching people into *orbit.*