This isn’t news to me. I’ve always been concerned (to the degree that I am concerned) about both, and in fact, I worry more about diastolic than systolic. I’m trying to get it down with 20 mg of Lisinopril, but it’s still 150/100 on waking. Fortunately, I’ve never had a cardiovascular event, despite having lost both parents relatively young to heart attacks. I think I have a much healthier lifestyle, though. They were both life-long smokers, and overweight (partly as a result of horrible nutrition advice from the government).
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Chappaquiddick
Half a century later, still covering for the Kennedy’s.
The media cover up was aided by the fact that it happened during the moon landing.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Fifty years later, the media continues to whitewash Chappaqiddick.
“[The Lion of the Senate] was Kennedy’s nickname. He was like a lion, in the sense that he mated without limit and killed without remorse.”
Heh.
I disagree though, on one of his movie recommendations. There are many better documentaries of how we got to the moon than First Man, which was about Neil Armstrong, not Apollo per se. The best I’ve seen (and I saw it in IMAX at the NASM a few weeks ago) is Apollo 11. The most surprising thing about it, considering how good it is, is that it was produced by CNN. I recorded it a few days ago to watch tomorrow with friends.
Ilhan Omar
She happened because the media chose to lie to you.
I wonder how much longer they’ll be able to cover this up?
[Update a few minutes later]
Tying up loose threads in the curious case. The media must hate that Trump brought it up, because it makes it harder to ignore.
[Update a few more minutes later]
First link is fixed now, sorry.
The Gray Lady
Continues to diminish the achievement of Apollo 11.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related: Apollo Shrugs.
[Late-afternoon update]
Treacher: Yeah, well, the Soviets sent women and minorities into space first.
[Friday-morning update]
More thoughts from Karol Markowicz (who was born in the Soviet Union):
Sure, Communists tortured and executed dissidents, starved their own people by the millions and operated gulags — but have you heard about their amazing space feminism and space intersectionality?
“Cosmonaut diversity was key for the Soviet message to the rest of the globe,” the writer, Sophie Pinkham, wrote. Her piece reads like something from an old issue of the Soviet newspaper Pravda boasting of the achievements of the Soviet space program.
It’s not like this is anything new from the paper.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
Autism
Genetic factors are the primary ones. Yes, it’s not vaccines.
I also subscribe to the theory that tech hubs have brought people together who might not have met in previous times, and their kids are getting a double dose.
Mike Collins
It was a weird situation, but it wasn’t lonely.
“You put some Samoan on his little canoe out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at night and he doesn’t really know where he’s going, he doesn’t know how to get there. He can see the stars, they’re his only friend out there, and he’s not talking to anybody. That guy is lonely.”
“I didn’t experience that kind of loneliness,” he said. “So I did not have Mission Control yakking at me for a full two-hour orbit — for 40 minutes or so I was over there behind the moon — but I was in my comfortable little home. Columbia was a nice, secure, safe, commodious place. I had hot coffee, I had music if I wanted it, I had nice views out the window.”
“To depict me as in despair or something and so lonely as in, ‘Oh my gosh, I could hardly wait to get back to the human voice coming directly up from Earth,’ yeah, that’s baloney.”
I always thought it was baloney.
China And NASA
Are they in a race?
Bryan doesn’t mention the (white) elephant in the room: SLS.
The Truth Comes Out
“Washington has laid all the ugly cards out on the table, and at last we have clarity.”
What a scene it presents. On the one hand is a group of people who think America is the source of all evil that should spend the rest of its historical existence atoning for the mischief it has loosed in the world. On the other hand is a group who believe that for all its faults it is the greatest country in the world and that those who want to destroy it should go back to Somalia. Whichever point of view you subscribe to (or neither) it’s hard to deny that these factions have existed for some time and are only now coming to grips in the open.
Yes.
[Update a while later]
Trump is not a racist: He’s just moving the Overton Window back to normal.
The FBI’s Spreadsheet
…puts a stake through the heart of the Steele dossier.
It’s now past mid-July, and we’re still waiting for the Horowitz report.
Mexicans
Just like Trump.