Andrew, Pete Knight certainly deserves to be recognized as a pilot and a space pioneer, but he was also a very controversial political figure in California. He was the driving force behind the legislation to keep gay marriage illegal (the law that the San Francisco mayor was flouting earlier this year), and he was regularly denounced by the left as a rabid right-wing homophobe (I don’t know to what degree that’s true, but considering the sources of much of the criticism, I’m inclined to think that he wasn’t as much of a neanderthal as his political enemies made him out to be).
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An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
An Empty Seat At The Friar’s Club
Fox News is reporting that Alan King, the King of comedy, has died. The Borscht Belt just greatly expanded its borders.
[Update on Tuesday, May 11th]
Alan Henderson has some additional commentary.
Re: Spacearium
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.
Good Thing Europe Doesn’t Have Any Electoral Votes
Hot off the press, the New York Times says that Europeans don’t like Bush very much. Frankly, reading this article just makes me even more inclined to vote for him, just to cheese them off.
The Asteroid Has Struck The Dinosaurs
I think that the headline of this story tells it all.
Hypocrites
I’m with Andrew Stuttaford.
Bush was right to apologize to the Iraqis for what was done, and, politically it may have been shrewd to couch that apology in wider terms to all Arab peoples, but we should be clear about one thing. The denunciations of America by the Arab press outside Iraq has no more moral (politically speaking, it is something else) significance than the sight of a weeping Goebbels. It