There are many “artists” in Hollywood who I wish would emulate this guy. He sets a great example.

Speaking of the New York Post, John Podhoretz writes that it’s not enough to get rid of Raines, and Boyd, Bragg and Blair. The rot comes from the top, and there’s nothing to indicate that the basic arrogance, and ongoing delusion that the paper is objective, will go away with them.

I’m reminded (as I often am) by a Simpsons episode. It’s one of the Halloween shorts, in which Mr. Burns is a vampire (as opposed to most episodes, in which he’s merely a blood sucking parasite). After putting the stake through him, they realize that it wasn’t enough–they had to kill the head vampire (which turned out to be Marge).

The board of the Paper Formerly Known As The Paper Of Record still has to kill their head vampire.

A bill has been introduced in the House to provide tax credits for private investment in space transportation.

I don’t know whether or not this will actually become law, or even if it should.

I’ve got mixed feelings about about it. I’m all in favor of things that encourage investment in this area, but I hate the idea of further mucking up an already-complicated tax code, and I’m afraid that it may result in some things getting funded that aren’t necessarily viable, just for the tax credit, which won’t help the credibility of the industry. I don’t want it to become another hothouse plant like solar energy.

I also wonder how reasonable the process will be to determine whether or not company qualifies.

The front page of today’s New York Post has a headline, in Second Coming font, “Paper of Wreckage,” with a picture of Raines.

There’s also a want ad:

Help Wanted

Executive Editor for Manhattan-based newspaper of record. Lefty francophile with diversity obsession and knack for plugging circulation leaks.

Allergic to Republicans okay. Tolerance for high taxes a must. America-basher a plus.

Respect for facts optional.

The front page of today’s New York Post has a headline, in Second Coming font, “Paper of Wreckage,” with a picture of Raines.

There’s also a want ad:

Help Wanted

Executive Editor for Manhattan-based newspaper of record. Lefty francophile with diversity obsession and knack for plugging circulation leaks.

Allergic to Republicans okay. Tolerance for high taxes a must. America-basher a plus.

Respect for facts optional.

The front page of today’s New York Post has a headline, in Second Coming font, “Paper of Wreckage,” with a picture of Raines.

There’s also a want ad:

Help Wanted

Executive Editor for Manhattan-based newspaper of record. Lefty francophile with diversity obsession and knack for plugging circulation leaks.

Allergic to Republicans okay. Tolerance for high taxes a must. America-basher a plus.

Respect for facts optional.

FBI agents are getting lessons in how to be teenage girls–from teenage girls.

“Around the FBI offices, Karen, Mary and Kristin have become like the agents’ adopted daughters, getting hugs and high-fives from their students. But naturally, the adults often think they know best.

One agent kept insisting that he was right when he answered on a quiz that Justin Timberlake was more popular than Destiny’s Child. Another was miffed when the girls told the class that Led Zeppelin was just not cool…

…And the younger female FBI agents assumed that teenage girls would think actor George Clooney is cute.

We’re, like, no,” said Mary, making a face.

“He’s, like, 50,” Karen exclaimed.

[via Geek Press]

[Update at 9:09 AM PDT]

Heh. Fark (no surprise) has a comments section running on it:

There once was an agent in disguise,
In search of some paedophile guys.
He tried to pretend,
But could not transcend,
The gender Led Zeppelin implies.

FBI agents are getting lessons in how to be teenage girls–from teenage girls.

“Around the FBI offices, Karen, Mary and Kristin have become like the agents’ adopted daughters, getting hugs and high-fives from their students. But naturally, the adults often think they know best.

One agent kept insisting that he was right when he answered on a quiz that Justin Timberlake was more popular than Destiny’s Child. Another was miffed when the girls told the class that Led Zeppelin was just not cool…

…And the younger female FBI agents assumed that teenage girls would think actor George Clooney is cute.

We’re, like, no,” said Mary, making a face.

“He’s, like, 50,” Karen exclaimed.

[via Geek Press]

[Update at 9:09 AM PDT]

Heh. Fark (no surprise) has a comments section running on it:

There once was an agent in disguise,
In search of some paedophile guys.
He tried to pretend,
But could not transcend,
The gender Led Zeppelin implies.

FBI agents are getting lessons in how to be teenage girls–from teenage girls.

“Around the FBI offices, Karen, Mary and Kristin have become like the agents’ adopted daughters, getting hugs and high-fives from their students. But naturally, the adults often think they know best.

One agent kept insisting that he was right when he answered on a quiz that Justin Timberlake was more popular than Destiny’s Child. Another was miffed when the girls told the class that Led Zeppelin was just not cool…

…And the younger female FBI agents assumed that teenage girls would think actor George Clooney is cute.

We’re, like, no,” said Mary, making a face.

“He’s, like, 50,” Karen exclaimed.

[via Geek Press]

[Update at 9:09 AM PDT]

Heh. Fark (no surprise) has a comments section running on it:

There once was an agent in disguise,
In search of some paedophile guys.
He tried to pretend,
But could not transcend,
The gender Led Zeppelin implies.

In light of France’ recent perfidy, it’s all the more important to somberly note what happened fifty nine years ago today.

Remember Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold, Juno–names that should, and probably will echo down the ages with Hastings, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Verdun, Iwo Jima and their likes.

[Update at 9:27 AM PDT]

Here’s Reagan’s speech commemorating the fortieth anniversary.

When men like Private Zanatta and all our Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy 40 years ago they came not as conquerors, but as liberators. When these troops swept across the French countryside and into the forests of Belgium and Luxembourg they came not to take, but to return what had been wrongfully seized. When our forces marched into Germany they came not to prey on a brave and defeated people, but to nurture the seeds of democracy among those who yearned to be free again.

We salute them today. But, Mr. President [Francois Mitterand of France], we also salute those who, like yourself, were already engaging the enemy inside your beloved country — the French Resistance. Your valiant struggle for France did so much to cripple the enemy and spur the advance of the armies of liberation. The French Forces of the Interior will forever personify courage and national spirit. They will be a timeless inspiration to all who are free and to all who would be free.

Chirac and his minions should be ashamed, but they won’t be.

I wonder if there will be a presidential visit to Normandy next year, for the sixtieth? Probably, unfortunately, it being hot in campaign season. Hopefully, unlike Clinton nine years ago, he won’t fake a photo op with stones on the beach.