…is criminally insane.
Amusing Spam Du Jour
Yes, I totally believe that this email from the head of the FBI, subject: “WARRANT TO ARREST YOU GET BACK TO US FOR YOUR OWN GOOD,” is real: Continue reading Amusing Spam Du Jour
Popping The Higher-Education Bubble
With Obama’s war on the suburbs.
If so, it seems like it would be poetic justice.
Meanwhile, In Mojave
In contrast to NASA’s unfortunate attempt today, Dave Masten is tweeting that they just flew Xombie 650 yards down range.
Saving The Lunar Artifacts
A story with quotes from Roger Launius and Glenn Reynolds over at NPR.
Back To The Drawing Board
Apparently Morpheus crashed and burned in its first untethered flight. Armadillo and Masten often make this stuff look easy, but it’s not.
[Update a fewminutes later]
Here’s the video. Sounds like a tank blew up after a few seconds. Single engine, so had to be a failure of the gimbal or the controller.
Endeavor’s Final Voyage
Ever since the awarded it to LA, I’ve been wondering how they were going to get it from LAX to Exposition Park without pulling off wings or vertical stabilizer, given all the overhead and street-width issues on city streets. Well, here’s a description of the route. Despite what they say, I’ll bet some old trees will die for this.
Statistics And The Failure Of Space Policy
Thoughts from Ed Wright on why we have to get space activities out of the hands of politicians as soon as possible.
Mars Spreadsheet Update
For anyone interested, I’ve got a new, improved version up. It’s basically more organized, with the constants grouped together, and with no references to rows below the formula.
How Disconnected With Reality Is Barack Obama?
This disconnected: he actually believes (or at least claims to) that the press is biased against him:
…overall, this president still benefits far more than most of his predecessors from a press that generally likes him, agrees with his policies on most key issues, and deeply hopes that he will be re-elected in November. Few incumbents have ever had this kind of support from the Fourth Estate; few challengers have ever had such a hard time getting a break from the media as Governor Romney.
Moreover, some of President Obama’s complaints are unsettling. As he sees it, the liberal narrative is “the truth”, competing narratives are “factually incorrect”, and the press has a duty not to treat truth on an equal basis with falsehood. By this standard, any article that doesn’t heap scorn and disdain on those who disagree with him is biased; “balance” is an illusion when it comes to subjects about which liberals are passionately convinced that they are right.
It just isn’t that simple. Political disagreements are often about values and context—about which facts are important and should move policy rather than about whether side A or side B is right about some specific point. There’s a totalitarian impulse and a deep hostility to the concept of public debate lurking not far below the surface here, and it’s a little unsettling that President Obama seems to think there are a lot of public policy issues on which the liberal viewpoint is True and the conservative viewpoint is Dumb.
As he notes, Leftists are the descendants of the Puritans. It’s just a different religion. And it’s frightening to have a commander-in-chief this deep in delusion.