The elephant in the living room in the gun control debate

American Thinker

The "elephant" is mental health.

Next Big Future: Molten Salt Reactors and Sorensen FliBe reactor di...

Next Big Future: Molten Salt Reactors and Sorensen FliBe reactor di...: A number of commercial high-temperature reactors are under development around the world. But this year, a consortium of petrochemical compa...

How he stopped SOPA

Swartz hanged himself. ( But that's not how he did it. ) But before doing so, he stopped a runaway freight train called SOPA.

The entire government is a runaway freight train.  One thing that I would dearly love to stop would be a carbon tax or a carbon trading scheme.  They are completely unnecessary for two basic reasons:

1. There is no global warming
2. Even if there is global warming and carbon dioxide is causing it, we have complete power to stop using carbon for energy right now without the need for any tax, nor government action.  If there's anything that I think that I have gone a long way to prove is this point.

It's a crime that this kid was driven to suicide.  But that is the age we live in.

Don Henley - Dirty Laundry (With Lyrics)

Blame it on the amygdala.

Mead: Trillion Dollar Coin DOA

Via Meadia

the trillion dollar coin is dead. As Ezra Klein reports, the Treasury won’t make one and if it did the Fed wouldn’t accept it...money is serious business and playing silly mind games with the public and the markets that undermine faith in the monetary system is a Very Bad Idea.

Comment:

Anybody who says this with a straight face is deluded or is pulling your leg.

SpaceX Crewed Dragon: Pressing home the advantage | NASASpaceFlight.com

SpaceX Crewed Dragon: Pressing home the advantage | NASASpaceFlight.com

ParaPundit: Online Learning Continues Fast Growth

Parker

The online learning site Coursera is taking off.

I followed the link to Coursera and eventually came up with this Ted Talk



Interesting. What kind of course could a 50 something geezer like me take? And for what purpose?  How about you readers out there?  Think you could use this concept?