Category Archives: Humor

The Space History They Don’t Want You To Know

Shubber Ali played this for me and a few others on his laptop when we were sitting around drinking margaritas out of the pistonless pump Friday night at the Space Access Conference in April.

It’s about a ten-minute Ken-Burns-like documentary video, complete with mournful fiddle music and spirituals. You’ll find it a gripping and poignant story. You’ll also find it an extremely politically-incorrect hoot.

[Via Spacecraft, which has a new URL]

The Space History They Don’t Want You To Know

Shubber Ali played this for me and a few others on his laptop when we were sitting around drinking margaritas out of the pistonless pump Friday night at the Space Access Conference in April.

It’s about a ten-minute Ken-Burns-like documentary video, complete with mournful fiddle music and spirituals. You’ll find it a gripping and poignant story. You’ll also find it an extremely politically-incorrect hoot.

[Via Spacecraft, which has a new URL]

The Space History They Don’t Want You To Know

Shubber Ali played this for me and a few others on his laptop when we were sitting around drinking margaritas out of the pistonless pump Friday night at the Space Access Conference in April.

It’s about a ten-minute Ken-Burns-like documentary video, complete with mournful fiddle music and spirituals. You’ll find it a gripping and poignant story. You’ll also find it an extremely politically-incorrect hoot.

[Via Spacecraft, which has a new URL]

News Bulletin

Listen to this when it gets posted tomorrow.

In the early morning the bodies of 14 men were discovered in a shallow mass grave in a rubbish dump in northeastern Baghdad. Some of the victims were blindfolded and appear to have been executed with a shot to the head. Now this news bulletin…

BBC radio 15:00 GMT, Friday, May 6, 2005

This gives a new meaning to murderous competition for news delivery.

Poor Word Choice

On NPR this morning I heard the following gem:

A member of Iraq’s new parliament has been shot and killed outside her home in Baghdad. It was the first assassination of a member of the National Assembly since the body was elected in January.

I would want to be elected and remembered for my mind.