Category Archives: Media Criticism

Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Brutal

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The new NASA administrator’s assessment of both NASA and Boeing’s performance on Commercial Crew:

[Late-afternoon update]

I don’t think that “Yikes!” really covers the waterfront here:

Here‘s Eric Berger’s story.

[Evening update]

Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.

Media Criticism, Philosophy, Political Commentary, Space, Technology and Society

Making Space Important

25 Comments

A thought experiment, to which I’ve gotten little response so far.

General, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture

Ice Dancing

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This is an age-old controversy, but while it (and figure skating in general) is entertaining, it is not a sport. It’s ballet on ice, except that ballet has no judges, biased or otherwise. The American team was clearly robbed. I have no problem keeping it in the Olympics, and it’s athletics in the sense that it requires training and practice, but stop pretending that it’s a sport. Sports scores should be objective, not whimsical.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Ameliamentum

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The anime style is not my cup of tea, but this could rouse the British lads.