Global Warming (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I prepared this list of my most read posts. You may find it helpful, though it mostly reflects the vagaries of the google search engine. I have done some odd stuff that I would expect to attract comment only to see it completely ignored. Other items I unexpectedly see every day even after a year or more. What I most welcome from readers is the occasional pointer to a source site that I may have overlooked...
third world county (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
While Jerry Pournelle eschews such loaded terms as “Obumascare” his observation in today’s Chaos Manor View certainly gives one pause: If it cost $300 million to get Landrieu to vote to allow the bill to be debated, what in the world will it cost to get her to vote for the bill itself? And now that [...]
This Week in Tech (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Hosts: Leo Laporte , Becky Worley , and John C. Dvorak The trouble with advertising tweets, web loyalty ripoffs, and the problem with popcorn... For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode . Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed Room . Transcript posted 24 hours after show release by PodsInPrint . For two free audio books,...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I LINK TO JERRY POURNELLE’S SITE FROM TIME TO TIME, and if you like his stuff you might consider donating or subscribing.
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
JERRY POURNELLE: “The present administration seems determined to continue its policies while protesting that cutting the deficit is of primary importance. One wonders how we can increase spending and cut the deficit. The only way I know is to run the printing presses. We live in interesting times. I thought Weimar Germany already [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
FROM 1952: POPULAR MECHANICS looks at Robert Heinlein’s new house. (Via reader Robert Racansky, who saw it at Jerry Pournelle’s.).
Workbench (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
For the last two years I've voted in the Hugo Awards , yearly literary honors for science fiction and fantasy (but mostly science fiction). I skipped the best novel category because I hadn't read most of the works, which is no fun at all since that's the biggest award. So when the 2010 Hugos are decided next spring, I'd like to have completed enough of the nominated novels to make an informed vote....
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
1400 or so people perished in New Orleans during Katrina and we all know as far as liberals were concerned the administration could no no right no matter what they did even though we all know damn well all the responsibility for those deaths lied with the local authorities led by Chocolate City Mayor Ray Nagin and Nagin's Navy pictured below... not George Bush, the Church of liberalism's sworn enemy...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Jerry Pournelle takes a long look. Are all Muslims enemies of everyone not part of the House of Submission to Islam? But it all depends on how you define “Muslim” and even more importantly, how the Muslim scholars who define Islam define Muslim; and there the [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
One of my favorite SF books (at least, I think it's SF) is Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. I suppose movies like Deep Impact or Armageddon could be based on it, but I think it's story was much more interesting (more ...
Miss Kelly (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Of the many op-eds, columns and blogposts about the Ft. Hood massacre, I think these two by Jerry Pournelle and Mark Steyn capture the two most salient points of the tragedy:Jerry Pournelle's blogpost discusses the treasonous nature of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions and the criminal oversight of the U.S....
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
JERRY POURNELLE: “There were plenty of indications that Major Hassan was behaving in an odd manner. Nothing was done about that. In my judgment it is not stupid to ask why nothing was done.”
The Ten O'Clock Scholar (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Found via Instapundit . Jerry Pournelle opines : “Unemployment is over 10%. It wasn’t supposed to get that high. TARP was supposed to fix that. . . . If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a different kind of popular democracy, which generally means rule by a unionized bureaucracy organized to vote. Once that much of the economy is run by...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
JERRY POURNELLE: “I would have thought that the Obama administration is at least as responsible for the US response to the Swine Flu problem as the Bush administration ever was for the New Orleans response to Katrina, but the media are not reporting it that way. I wonder how those who stood in long [...]
Ride Fast & Shoot Straight (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
U.S. Army Major Hassan seems to have ended his career as a traitor, but I have to wonder how bad he could have gotten before the Army decided to do something about him. He seemed to be advocating for the enemy (voicing support for suicide bombers), was opposed to the war (and agitating against it), tried very hard to avoid overseas deployment and God only knows what he said to his psychiatric patients....
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