{"id":3095,"date":"2025-09-12T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:33:34","slug":"another-whack-job-heads-a-government-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Another Whack Job Heads a Government Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Reagan was elected, he was largely put in place by moneyed interests that wanted to buy up public land and the mineral extraction leasing of those lands. He installed a special little toad of a human to head up the Department of the Interior named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_G._Watt\">James Watt<\/a>. Watt was a lunatic who believed that it didn&#8217;t matter if we destroyed the planet because Jesus was coming in a few years anyway. I was reminded of him by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Wright\">idiot<\/a> in this story. When I was in high school my Physics teacher told me that we would have nuclear fusion figured out in 10 years of less. That was almost 50 years ago. When I was in college my Physics professor told me we would have nuclear fusion figured out in the next decade. That was 40 years ago. I don&#8217;t think the track record on predicting fusion is reliable. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqlz5p314z0o\">US energy chief tells BBC nuclear fusion will soon power the world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Reagan was elected, he was largely put in place by moneyed interests that wanted to buy up public land and the mineral extraction leasing of those lands. He installed a special little toad of a human to head up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=3095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futuristics","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society","category-technology"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}