Dating and Stupidity

I am going to talk in broad terms about men and women.  What I am saying here does not apply perfectly to every man or every woman.  That's not the point.  It applies well enough, to enough men and enough women, that it's useful for analysis.  Now that I have stated this, I'm not going …

Space Force, Part 11: It begins

It took a holiday to give me the time I needed to catch up on Space Force news.  I have had browser tabs sitting open for months, waiting for me to write something about the articles. [EDIT: added] Opinion on why we need a Space Force, from way back in June 2018, by Doug Loverro, …

A word on editing posts after publishing

I occasionally edit posts after publishing them, without notification.  Yes, that's called 'stealth editing'.  Weasels are sneaky, after all.  I do that to improve presentation, as well as fix grammatical or spelling errors.  Unlike the mainstream media, I do not make stealth edits to change the meaning of a post, nor to save myself from …

Warrant Officers for the Air Force

The question comes up every few years of whether USAF would recreate a warrant officer (WO) program, similar to the other US services. I present some simplified background on WO, why they exist, and why and how USAF could implement them. USAF had warrant officers from its creation in 1947, as holdovers from the Army …

Nuclear Posture

What Weasel is reading: The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review Why?  Because nuclear weapons are important! What Weasel is drinking: usually a bottle of Negra Modelo or a glass of a nice Tempranillo or Malbec. The report is available on this page in several languages, and as an executive summary. https://dod.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0218_npr/ US nuclear weapons today include …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 18

Violence as chronicled in this blog includes assault, vandalism, threats of violence, and doxxing.  As usual, by the time I have compiled two long posts full of left-on-right violence, there's a shorter list of links to stories of right-on-left violence that should also come to light.  This is that list of links.  All one of …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 17

Usually I point out that my political violence analysis includes threats, vandalism, doxxing.  Well, sometimes the leftists go all the way to murder.  It is times like those that leftists magically become rightists in the eyes of the media.  Well, they are not.  If you want to know what motivated the shooters (typically one of …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 16

Here I am trying to catch up with current events  First, events of June-July-August, more or less.  This is of course another post in a series on political violence.  Violence in this case includes assaults, threats of violence, vandalism, and doxxing.  This is one of the posts that focuses on left-on-right violence, which makes it …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 15

I'm overdue to continue the study of political violence.  Stuff happened, but with the help of my insurance company, my house is in great shape.  This series has hot a sort of rhythm.  Two long posts about left-on-right (or occasionally left on not-quite-so left) violence, followed by one very short post on right-on-left violence.  This …

Mental Models and Predictions: Environmental Disasters

As I discussed in this post, people make predictions which can turn out to be reasonably accurate or complete failures.  Predictions are based on mental models, and bad predictions can indicate deeply flawed mental models, especially if many predictions prove to be wrong over a long time period.  To put it plainly, People (maybe very …