NPR, usually the first to panic about evil nuclear energy, is reporting some very undramatic numbers from the Fukushima reactor Radiation inside the plant is arguably dangerous, but radiation at the plants main gate is 0.647 milliserverts per hour. By comparison, when you take a flight, you get about 0.04 milliserverts per hour from cosmic rays, so standing at the main gate is fifteen times worse than flying. So someone …
How the middle eastern revolutions are working out.
Bryan Caplan wanted people to go on record predicting the future of Egypt before the future becomes apparent. My prediction has come true
Reactor disaster
The television is full of panic stricken horror about the supposedly horrible horrible horrible horrible nuclear disaster in Japan. This disaster looks like being worse than three mile island, but not nearly as bad as Chernobyl. How many died as a result of Chernobyl? Sixty people died.  Pretty similar compared to coal mining disasters, of which there are many each year, killing in total world wide thousands of people every …
More astroturf
Your taxes at work – the government stages protests demanding more government. The “One Nation Working Together Rally†got lots of ridicule because all the protesters had professionally made mass produced signs. So these protesters as they stream out of their taxpayer paid for buses are handed professionally made mass produced signs that are made to look like home made signs. thanks to Sharp Elbows, via Lonely Conservative and Moonbattery …
Losing the peace to Islam
The liberal program for gender abolition does not seem to appeal to its supposed beneficiaries.
Fossil life found in meteor fragment
You have probably seen the photos of alleged fossil microorganisms in meteorites, but these are unconvincing. Look hard enough, and you will find faces in rocks. Lots of people have found supposed fossil microorganisms that turned out to be random shapes in rocks. More impressive are asymmetric amino acids. The meteorite Ivuna Cl1 contained 372 parts per billion of l glutamic acid, but only 8 parts per billion of d …
Untitled
I see it regularly claimed that financial crisis reflected de-regulation. I was mighty puzzled. Deregulation? Has not Basel been a spectacular landslide of regulation, with massive apocalyptic government takeover of the financial system, with government deciding who shall be winners and who shall be losers, with government allocating lending to favored groups and away from disfavored groups? Eventually I discovered that this “deregulation†was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Bill, also known as …
Bryan Caplan’s challenge
if Egypt gets democracy, will suffer war and economic disaster, both of which will be blamed on Jews. Democracy with universal franchise does not work. It works worse with Muslims. No Muslim should be allowed to vote anywhere, especially in countries with substantial numbers of Muslims
The decline of civilization reflected in fantasy novels
Black gate observes the replacement of heroes by anti heroes, and the replacement of morality by anti morality: Thus we can be confident that the murderous, blaspheming anti-hero who rapes and tortures children will never utter a racist thought, be disgusted by homosexuality, or express skepticism about any religious stand-in for Judaism or Islam. … Abercrombie and others cannot rightly be accused of amorality nor can they correctly be portrayed …
$1,200 billion increase cut by $60 billion
From the fact that the deficit is $1,600 billion, and that the “right†triumphantly announces that it has cut spending by 60 billion, which “cut†will somehow fail to prevent the deficit from growing rapidly, I predict collapse in a decade or two – armed conflict between elements of the government, or between the government and the people, or, very likely, both. I have been making a similar prediction, for the same decade, since 1994, and events seem to be proceeding on schedule.