I had occasion to re-read Heinlein’s Starship Troopers recently after a pleasant encounter with Helldivers 2, which constitutes a delightful parody of the 1997 Verhoeven film that is, in turn, a missed-the-mark parody of the 1959 book. There is a long ongoing controversy over ST over whether or not it is fascist. I’m not completely […]
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Angels and Perry Mason, Defend Us
At what point do we admit that we are wrong about something? In most Perry Mason episodes that I remember, Mason interrogates the guilty party on the stand in a hearing and pushes them into a logical corner, where they promptly confess: “Alright, Mason, I did it! You got me!” Cut to Mason having a […]
Several high-profile university presidents went before Congress this week and got eviscerated for apparent latent antisemitism. These events, by themselves, are not notable or unpredictable, but I saw an interesting sidebar today in the Times on their attempts at prepping, via lawyers. Top-level university administrators spend an inordinate amount of their work hours talking to […]