…has written a book
Good News For Those Worried About China In Space
If this is true, they’re wasting their money on a heavy lifter.
That Didn’t Take Long
It hasn’t been twelve hours since the latest massacre, and people in the media are already using it to call for gun control that would be very unlikely to have prevented it. And of course, it goes without saying that it’s Rush Limbaugh’s and the Tea Party’s fault. I predict that Sarah Palin will be fingered by the end of the day.
Idiot demagogues and rhetorical ambulance chasers.
I will say that it might be useful not to allow costumes in movie theaters, though. Something like this was inevitable.
[Update a while later]
ABC News: “Oops, sorry about that.”
Note that their first instinct is always to blame “right wingers” and (more recently) the Tea Party, whereas they always go to ridiculous lengths to downplay any possible connection to jihad. And if the guy turns out to have connections to the Occumorons, we’ll never hear about it. Most likely, though, it will just turn out to be a nut, like Jarred Loughner.
Not Just A Pseudoscience Guy
Bill Nye is also an Obama guy. But I guess pseudoscience and pseudoeconomics go together.
The Apollo Anniverary
Bill Simon and I will be on The Space Show tomorrow morning/afternoon (depending on your time zone — it’s at 0930 PDT until 1100 PDT) to discuss our ceremony to commemorate the first landing on the moon (tomorrow will be the 43rd anniversary). As a special feature, Margaret Jordan, a friend of three decades and one of the authors, will also be on for the first time. This will be a special event, as she, Bill and I haven’t talked together in many years, not because we don’t like each other, but because that’s just how life works.
Listen in. Among other things, we’ll perform the ceremony on Internet radio.
Modern Warfare
How to capture Cinderella’s Castle. Good ideas in comments.
It would be totally worth it just to take out “It’s A Small World.”
Expand Your Vocabulary
These regional words are whoopensockers. If you don’t use them, you’re a bufflehead.
Hmmmm…interestingly, Firefox dictionary recognizes the latter, but not the former.
As Long As We’re Talking About Mitt’s Tax Records
Here are the top ten things that Obama refuses to release.
The double standards are amazing, particularly considering all the Bravo Sierra the administration makes about “transparency.”
If Climate Models Can’t Predict The Past?
Credentialed, Not Educated
Employers have finally caught wise to the academic scam:
Employers, because they realize that many college graduates aren’t really educated, now routinely quiz job seekers on what they majored in and what courses they took, a practice virtually unknown a generation ago. Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.
They themselves got scammed by con artists like Barack Obama, who told them that they had to get a degree, even if they have to go into unaffordable debt undischargable in a bankruptcy, while not bothering to tell them that what they get a degree in matters out in the real world.
[Update a while later]
“This is a terrible social policy. It is deeply destructive.”
Unfortunately, that’s been true of many, if not most of our social policies over the past eighty years, and particularly over the past twenty. And we’re starting to reap the whirlwind.