Trantor Journal

If a science of history were achieved, it would, like the science of celestial mechanics, make possible the calculable prediction of the future in history.

03 August 2016

Reposted in full -

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I shamelessly copy/pasted this in the FT Comments (with attribution!) just to see what would happen. The response was overwhelming. On...

20 July 2016

Terra incognita

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Day 1 of the unsurprisingly screwy GOP convention. We knew it was going to be a train wreck - how could it not be? So we just had to watc...

16 July 2016

Meanwhile, back in Crazytown . . .

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Trump just gets wackier with each passing day . And, in related news, Mike Pence appears to have a skeleton right out of the box . That d...

10 July 2016

Duh

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Yes, perhaps this is indeed an example of why expansive open carry laws are stupid, illiberal and dangerous.

Finally, a real apology

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Was it really so much to ask?

09 July 2016

It's not quite 1968

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But sometimes it feels like it. Josh's deeply thoughtful post gamely yet tepidly reassures. I'm not so sure myself. The danger f...

08 July 2016

Sadly, this seemed inevitable . . .

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In the wake of the latest police shootings of unarmed black men, is it any wonder this would happen ? In prior shootings, as a final i...

06 July 2016

Chilcot report in

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Seven years late. Nothing surprising: Tony's most egregious continuing mis-truth is the idea that his decision was honestly taken be...

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Raven: I was born in the 10th month of the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era (GE) (-79 Foundation Era (FE)). My prediction of the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire has earned me nickname "Raven" Seldon: I guess it stuck. For reasons too tedious to explain, I have made very few in-the-flesh appearances to my interlocutors: just read the book. I prefer to appear in pre-recorded holographic messages when it is time to reveal a Seldon Crisis. However, since the invention of the internet, thanks to Al Gore, I have chosen to reveal my observations (and perhaps a few predictions) on this website.

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