Boy, ask and ye shall receive. A few more posts like that, on a regular basis, Andrew, and I could retire. Unfortunately, this blog has a lousy pension plan.
And after y’all have read Andrew’s post on Suborbital Day, head over to The Space Review, where Jeff Foust explains, once again, why we shouldn’t build a new heavy-lift vehicle.
The Saturn 5 proved that heavy-lift vehicles can enable human exploration of the Moon. It
I predicted this would happen a few years ago, when the low-carb diets were still fringe theories, but I couldn’t figure out what exactly was the right play–short selling doesn’t make sense for an event that may take years. They’re really killing revenues for bread and pasta makers. It’s also, just as predictably, hitting doughnut and orange juice sales.
Due to an overzealous aide to Colin Powell, Tim Russert spent a couple minutes interviewing a palm tree this morning.
If he’s been Barbara Walters, he might have asked, “What kind of a tree would you like to be?”
Mohammed at Iraq The Model has an encouraging story of a trip to the southern part of Iraq:
The point behind all these pictures and stories I mentioned is that the people started to speak out and express their feelings and here we
We’re getting ready to load up the truck and move to Florida, so lots of things to do around the house for the next few days. Maybe Andrew will pick up the slack, if he has time.
I’ve had several people find their way to this site today with searches on variants of “Berg Decapitation Beheading Video etc.”
Not a single one came searching for information on Abu Ghraib.
Those stupid people. They won’t let their betters tell them what’s news.
[Update at 4:30 PM PDT]
Here’s a weird one–“Arab locust beheading”
[Update on Friday afternoon]
Brian Linse disagrees.
In a sense he makes my point. There probably are many people looking for this item merely for the dubious pleasure of watching a snuff film, but the fact remains that demand for it is relatively high because the same news outlets that couldn’t wait to show us pornography that reflected badly on the administration remain unwilling to show something that might arouse “the American street.”
I’ve had several people find their way to this site today with searches on variants of “Berg Decapitation Beheading Video etc.”
Not a single one came searching for information on Abu Ghraib.
Those stupid people. They won’t let their betters tell them what’s news.
[Update at 4:30 PM PDT]
Here’s a weird one–“Arab locust beheading”
[Update on Friday afternoon]
Brian Linse disagrees.
In a sense he makes my point. There probably are many people looking for this item merely for the dubious pleasure of watching a snuff film, but the fact remains that demand for it is relatively high because the same news outlets that couldn’t wait to show us pornography that reflected badly on the administration remain unwilling to show something that might arouse “the American street.”
I’ve had several people find their way to this site today with searches on variants of “Berg Decapitation Beheading Video etc.”
Not a single one came searching for information on Abu Ghraib.
Those stupid people. They won’t let their betters tell them what’s news.
[Update at 4:30 PM PDT]
Here’s a weird one–“Arab locust beheading”
[Update on Friday afternoon]
Brian Linse disagrees.
In a sense he makes my point. There probably are many people looking for this item merely for the dubious pleasure of watching a snuff film, but the fact remains that demand for it is relatively high because the same news outlets that couldn’t wait to show us pornography that reflected badly on the administration remain unwilling to show something that might arouse “the American street.”
SpaceShipOne flew to over two hundred thousand feet today. In a sense, as Jim Oberg points out (via Alan Boyle, and by the way, congratulations on the second anniversary of Cosmic Log), at that altitude, it could be said to be the first private manned vehicle to fly into space.
It’s looking more and more like that insurance company that funded the X-Prize is going to lose the bet, but I’m still hoping for an upset for the prize by some upstart.
Andrew McCarthy says something that I’ve been saying since the beginning–that we aren’t at war with “terror.”
Terrorism is not an enemy. It is a method. It is the most sinister, brutal, inhumane method of our age. But it is nonetheless just that: a method. You cannot, and you do not, make war on a method. War is made on an identified