RIP.
Most people are probably too young to know who he was, but he was a comedy genius, of my parents’ time.
[Update Saturday morning]
OK, so I was a year late with the announcement. I was on an airplane just following Twitter links, and didn’t check the date. Worth remembering anyway.
I’m laid over in Dallas, flight in about an hour.
I disagree with this. He seems to be operating under the delusion that NASA is ever going to get anyone to Mars, and seemingly ignores the people with money who are working to do so.
On the sad state of science fiction:
Wherever they emerge, social-justice warriors claim to be champions of diversity. But they always reveal themselves to be relentlessly hostile to it: they applaud people of different genders, races, and cultures just so long as those people all think the same way. Theirs is a diversity of the trivial; a diversity of skin-deep, ephemeral affiliations.
This is one of the reasons I haven’t read as much as I did when I was younger. And sadly, the situation is similar on many college campuses.
A moral and historical ignoramus.
It’s not like it’s anything new.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Crusades and other “root causes.”
[Friday-morning update]
A Jew examines why Obama will not name Islam.
It’s official, the taxpayers took a $17B bath on it:
It did not have to be this way. Obama violated numerous bankruptcy laws when he strong-armed GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy, all to the benefit of United Auto Workers members. Non-union employees of the firms got screwed. And so did taxpayers.
That “every penny was paid back” was just another lie from the guy who said you can keep your doctor and your plan.
It’s a Big Lie.
Brought to you by the people who said you could keep your doctor and your plan.
Our immortality, or our extinction?
I think that’s a matter of how you define “us.”
The FAA is taking the first step toward granting them (in a sense). It doesn’t say how big an exclusion zone would be provided. But this is unprecedented. I assume this topic will come up at the conference tomorrow or Thursday.
I’m actually on the plane from Dallas, and should arrive in less than an hour. My first flight didn’t have wifi.