Tuesday Links - 8 March

Mike Rowe at Off The Wall - The Origin of Safety Third

Someone then asked me, “If safety isn’t first, then what is?” To which I replied, “Safety is too important to rank, but that doesn’t mean its first. ‘Safety Always’ would be a more sensible slogan, but I guess if I had to rank it, I’d put the desire to be safe after ‘the need to make money,’ and ‘the willingness to assume risk.’ In other words, ‘Safety Third.’”

The Other McCain - Why Ukraine Is Winning (So Far)

The so-called Fabian strategy of avoiding pitched battle while attacking the enemy’s supply lines has proven its value in Ukraine, where the defenders are inflicting real damage on the Russian invaders.

Watts Up With That - NYT Tiptoes Toward Energy Reality (“this debate is changing”)

Let history note that the February 23, 2022, print edition of the New York Times admitted that “net zero” was a long shot. This breaks the narrative that Net Zero was the inevitable future with politics and business and high technology leading the way. Forget energy density; energy reality would be remade by a shared narrative of hoping and wanting it to be remade.

Victory Girls - Brittney Griner, Pampered Athlete, Held On Drug Charge In Russia

Pampered U.S. athlete and WNBA player Brittney Griner has been held in Russia for nearly a month. She plays in the off-season for a women’s basketball team in Russia. Griner was stopped in an airport near Moscow when vaping equipment and hashish oil was detected by a drug sniffing dog. Brittney Griner forgot the most important rule when traveling to a foreign country. Because Miss Brittney has been an elite athlete for most of her life, she has never had to learn any rules.

Bear Bussjaeger - CDC Reporting. It is all about the science™ and has nothing to do with politics.

The CDC has, on occasion, managed to inflate Georgia’s new daily cases by almost 4,000 times.

Clayton Cramer - Poverty. Read the whole thing and the linked article.

The Brookings Institute is a traditional liberal operation, not progressive, but concerned about the poor without worshipping them. They have studied what causes poverty.

Lone Star Parson - Nothing To See Here

Imagine, if you can, the threat of a hostile power setting up bioweapons labs on our border with, say, Mexico. Would you feel worried, threatened, outraged? I would and I'd want to see them gone. That in mind, the US is or was apparently doing just that, running biolabs in the Ukraine, at least 11 of them.