RIP.
I think he got short shrift in the Apollo 13 movie (as did Milt Windler). Very smart guy, and he was arguably more responsible for getting them back than Kranz.
Category Archives: History
Meritocracy Versus Idiocracy
Why China is winning.
Not very encouraging.
A Republic
Do we even have one any more?
As Mark Levin often says, we seem to be living in a post-Constitutional era.
The Age Of Space Reconnaissance
I had a long telecon and exchange of emails with Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky a few weeks ago, to bring them up to speed on what is going on in space for National Review. This article would seem to be one of the first products of that discussion.
If The Media Wasn’t Biased
Trump would have won 311 electoral votes.
Scum.
That Took Long Enough
One of Wikipedia’s co-founders is going to set up an alternative that is less biased toward the port side.
Iran
…has already beaten Biden.
Well, it’s pretty easy with someone who apparently wants to be beat.
A Chinese-American Rights group
…calls Critical Race theory “a hateful fraud.”
They’re not wrong. They know Maoism when they see it. They didn’t flee one cultural revolution to come to another.
A Space Shanty
A very nice one.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
OK, now let’s come up with some verses for “What Shall We Do With The Drunken Belter?”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Laura Montgomery has another one from a few years ago, but no known tune.
The Democrats And Censorship
They love it.
[Afternoon update]
Matt Taibbi: Censoring Fox News is the dumbest idea ever.
Matt seems to be one of the few liberals left on the left.