It’s dead, but we need to put a stake through its heart.
But it will always come back under another name.
Category Archives: History
Walt Cunningham
RIP.
He did a great service to the nation in Apollo 7, but less so in his opposition to commercial spaceflight.
[Update a while later]
Speaking of commercial spaceflight, John Krauss has some great photos of the Polaris Dawn crew at JSC.
Technology
…is saving you from profound levels of boredom, and it’s a problem.
Charlie Brown’s Inside Job
Memories of a Charlie Brown Christmas, from Caitlin Flanagan.
This, like the reading from Genesis by the Apollo 8 crew, seems like something that couldn’t happen today.
The FBI’s Response
The KGB would be proud.
And the purge begins.
Mitch McConnell
The GOP can’t be successful until he is gone.
I agree. On everything other than the judiciary, he’s been a disaster.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, link fixed now.
Anthropology
…is in ruins.
It’s been sick for a very long time, perhaps going all the way back to Margaret Meade.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, link fixed now.
Silicon-Valley Fraudsters
Are they today’s robber barons?
As Glenn notes, unlike the Carnegies, Rockefellers and J. P. Morgans, these robber barons haven’t given us much except toxic social media. The exception being, of course, Elon Musk.
California’s “Assault Weapons” Ban
…is probably going down.
Good.