On the morrow will occur the first flight to win the Ansari X-Prize. It will be live streamed on the web, and here's a Free Republic thread that will follow it with great interest.

As an aside, and for what it's worth, I doubt if there will be a similar one at Democratic Underground (perhaps the first time I've ever linked to anything there), though I have to admit that I don't want to wade through the moral and intellectual swamp at that site to look for one.

Nothing on the X-Prize active at DU at the moment. They seem to be too preoccupied with finding some way to pin the ominous seismic activity at Mt. St. Helens on Bush to worry about it right now.

"Moral and intellectual swamp"? Looking at your site I'd have to suggest that yours is a simmering stinkpot of ultra right wing ranting and libertarian wacko venom.

But it is still interesting.

Just Me,

You're absolutely right, Rand was wrong to compare DU to a swamp, as that would be an insult to swamps. Rather it is a great Gobi Desert of mental capability, an extreme environment in which intellectual and moral life hangs on only by its eye teeth.

"Just Me":

Pee-Wee Herman just called. He says your comment is just a longwinded way of saying "I know you are, but what am I?" -- and he claims he owns the copyright.

I see the peanut gallery is just as bereft of a clue as the blogmaster.

"I see the peanut gallery is just as bereft of a clue as the blogmaster."

No, it's Just You.

No really, Craig - this blog is a festering eyesore - lots of libertarian/right wing kook sorts of things all over. The blogmeister seems to have an extra bad case of 'I hate other people'.

Hey Just Me,

I truly and sincerely, I think the eyesore is on YOUR end of the screen, and it's effecting your vision. Certainly, Rand has certain views that run to right, especially in terms of laissez-faire in Space, but your view of him as pathologically conservative is absurd.

In fact, I would say your view is so myopic as to border on willful rejection of reality.

Furthermore, if his blog irritates you so much, why do you waste the electrons to post on it?

Electrons or neurons? He's short of both, I think.