Category Archives: Popular Culture

This Isn’t Crazy At All

Two lunaticsdaredevils are going to swap aircraft in mid-air.

[Monday-morning update]

So, apparently the stunt was a half success. I couldn’t tell from the original story whether or not they’d have parachutes (though if not, that seemed totally nuts), but apparently they did, which is why the pilot survived the failed attempt.

And really, FAA? Who are you to decide what is in the public interest, and whether or not someone should be allowed to do something even if you think it isn’t? I thought this was America.

[Bumped]

P.J. O’Rourke

RIP. He will be missed.

Little-known fact: He was a big fan of space. He was on the board of The Space Foundation. He never used email, but I sent some stuff to him once via his wife, and he wrote a nice letter thanking me.

[Update late afternoon]

John Podhoretz remembers him.

[Update Wednesday morning]

This kind of thing is why he was a national treasure.

[Monday update]

Matt Labash remembers him, as does Jonathan Last.

[Bumped]