Yet another weird SF fan

People didn't acquiesce to leftist demands because they agree that the Left was on the right side of history; they acquiesced to leftist...

One possible way to fight global warming is the increased use of desert solar energy. So… If the Gaza Strip were replaced by solar panels an...

I voted for George Santos.

In case anyone was wondering what the actual data was on vaccines and death rates, I checked the British data . Age group Deaths per 10...

“Breeds There a Man…?” by Isaac Asimov In the original, extraterrestrials (or whatever) are treating humanity as bacteria that must be cont...

“Details” by Poul Anderson In the original story, human history has been guided by benign humanoid extraterrestrials. At the beginning of t...

Ever since The 1619 Project was published, Story 3 has become oddly popular on the Left. They apparently think (if that it the correct wor...

Of course not! Those masks are transparent! We keep hearing about how masks cannot stop viruses because the gaps in the mask are larger tha...

Instead of talking about freedom of speech or freedom of the press, talk about freedom of seeing and freedom of listening. The difference b...

If an election should have gone 51% for Candidate X and 49% for Candidate Y and instead went 51% for Candidate Y and 49% for Candidate X, th...

So… They finally approved a vaccine. A vaccine that had been invented in two days last January. A few reactions: I had figured the delay wa...

…I must say something positive about Trump. He hasn't been nearly as bad as I had feared. The borders haven't slammed shut; there&#...

One possible explanation for the slowdown in COVID-19 outbreaks is that masks are unusually effective with this disease. When the pandemic s...

According to Blaise Pascal: All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room. One of the effects of th...

The most annoying COVID takes found on the Right: The belief that the hysteria is being driven by the Left. The belief that “nuking the cu...

You can think of the coronavirus crisis as a drill. One faction thinks of it as a drill for bubonic plague, coronal mass ejection, or an as...

Things we have reason to believe can spread COVID-19: Airlines. Subways. Cool weather (5–11°C). Lack of UV. Large institutions (school...

How long before there's a coronavirus comedy? Let's see… A gang of lovable misfits is thrown together to take care of coronavirus p...

A conspiracy theory I haven't seen yet: The coronavirus crisis was engineered by a gang of philosophers eager to see real-life examples...

The coverage of the coronavirus crisis includes an annoying phenomenon: On the one hand, the mainstream media ignored this in February and s...

The Coronavirus crisis has caused me to re-evaluate one of my opinions: I used to think the left-wing distinction between “personal” and “p...

I doubt it. The problem isn't globalization; the problem is single-sourcing. Getting all of your surgical masks from Wuhan is as bad as ...

This is a test of the effects of the \oldstyle macro in MathJax: \({\oldstyle 0123456789ABCDEF}\). Strange… It doesn't act like that i...

We see something that caused lots of trouble in the later stages of World War I—but was thought to have been defeated—spreading from human t...

Aslan? He’s big and predatory and has a mane of golden hair. Difficulty: He's not the Son of God. Hober Mallow? Some people might thin...

Nu?

Electrical conductivity was discovered in 1729 . What if Isaac Newton had discovered it six decades earlier? Could he have combined it with ...

Earlier this month, the Chinese government pressured a gaming company to suspend a pro gamer who spoke out on the Hong Kong side of the rec...

We have a problem. For some reason, younger voters tend to favor left-wing policies. My best guess that it that's due to left-wing teac...

One reason the Left is so eager to impose their opinions is that, in some sectors, the Right struck first, sometimes without realizing it. F...

If there was a Pride March, should there be marches for other sins? A Greed March on Wall Street, a Wrath March in either Portland or Charl...

Many conservatives think the answer to possible censorship by social networks is to bust them up. I disagree for the following reasons: We ...