We watched a documentary about the expedition last night. I was struck for the first time by the parallels with Apollo 13: A near disaster from which they recovered only through ingenuity and endurance (the ship was aptly named).
I only mentioned him in the book in terms of the probably apocryphal ad in the Times of London. If I ever do a new edition, I’ll probably talk more about that, as I did with Magellan.
Thoughts from Wretchard the Cat.
I watched some of the testimony this morning. Basically, he played dumb bureaucrat who got played by the FBI. In so doing, he threw McCabe under the bus. He’ll be a key witness at trial. The deer-in-the-headlights look as Ted Cruz excoriated him was amusing.
I wish that I was surprised that the Democrats attempted to downplay what happened. They used to pretend to care about the use of foreign-surveillance techniques to spy on Americans. I guess Orange Man Bad covers all sins.
[Thursday-morning update]
Rosenstein: I’m accountable, but not responsible.
What a mealy-mouthed twerp.
[Bumped]
Excoriates the idiot gun grabbers.
…is depressed and angry. So is Greg Gutfeld; he said so on The Five yesterday. I feel fortunate to live in a neighborhood that, despite being in the center of the LA metroplex, is unlikely to attract looters.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Thank CNN, the media, and the Democrats for the looting and the riots.
[Update a while later]
Pandemics and pandemonium: a history of pandemics and rioting, and a description of “riot ideology.” I just saw on Twitter that Barr is threatening to release communications between Antifa and prominent public officials to coordinate the mayhem. I’m guessing that none of those public officials are Republicans.
[Update while more later]
“Resistance” has become insurrection.
[Afternoon update]
How to destroy civilization. And American Kristallnacht.
I read Shirer’s “Rise and Fall” as a teenager, but not since.
…returns human spaceflight to America (and southern California).
I’m glad this is happening, but it should have happened years ago.
[Update just before launch time]
Welp, I guess they’ll try again Saturday. Florida weather.
[Thursday-morning update]
American spaceflight is now in Elon Musk’s hands.
[Bumped]
[Saturday-afternoon (in Florida) update]
Trying again in less than an hour.
[Bumped again]
[Update after the launch]
Looks like everything went perfectly, with weather cooperating in the last hour. On orbit now, and heading for a rendezvous with ISS tomorrow morning. Vodkapundit live blogged it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Another report from Emilee Speck.
[Sunday-morning update]
And, they’re docked. They named the ship Endeavour. Jonathan O’Callaghan has the story.
An open letter to them, from Bruce Bawer.
Yes, they have shrugged off Obama’s criminality and abuses of power, but it’s nothing new. They did the same thing in the 90s with the Clinton gang.
[Afternoon update]
Eureka! The Left discovers it.
Fair-weather federalists.
…want to bring back racial preferences, forever. Because racists gonna racist. I hope it does backfire on them.