Unfinished Thoughts

I recently read A City on Mars , which was enjoyable and really drove home the near impossibility of permanent settlement on the Moon, Mars or anywhere even more exotic. Some of the book dwells on the legal aspects of it which, if I'm being honest, seem like the most trivial parts of the overall challenge. Not to mention that law is whatever you can enforce in the end. If anyone reads my posts here they will know my rather dim view of the Supreme Court and problems with uneven enforcement. Anyway, a lot of the book addresses the technical challenges of a self-sustaining settlement off-Earth and basically comes to the conclusion that it's not happening anytime soon. But as the mountains of evidence and rationale start to pile up against the proposal, you start to wonder WHY the heck anyone believes in this plan? So here's my crazy idea: THEY are getting humanity ready for a reality of living in sealed-off cities a la Lo...

The last few months have been seen lots of people writing about  why or why not the 14th Amendment should apply to Trump. Ostensibly these have been on "both sides of the aisle" but that overlooks the reality that one side of the aisle are people who will believe absolutely fabrication Trump spoon feeds them and are largely incapable of anything resembling critical thought. Instead we are led to believe examples like J. Michael Luttig and George Conway III are somehow examplars of the mouth-breathers occupying the other side of the aisle simply because they at one time attached an (R) to their names. They are not. But that's not really my point in today's likely unfinished rant. Instead, that is to make this one singular statement before the case is heard: the Supreme Court as currently constituted will decide that Trump is eligible for office and that the cases from Colorado, Maine, and anywhere else are decided for Trump. Despi...