…plummets. Gillette certainly doesn’t seem “wicked smart” in this episode.
It occurs to me that Jillette wouldn’t say this if he thought that Obama really was a Christian. It’s just a pose for the rubes, and he approves, recognizing the cultural necessity. Obama doesn’t believe in anyone higher than himself.
First Hitchens, and now Vaclev Havel has died. Here’s what Matt Welch had to say about him a few years ago.
Don’t expect the media to make a big deal of it. He was the wrong kind of dissenter, being too American for Europe. The fact that he never won a Peace Prize, while Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama did, says something very fundamental about the corruption and uselessness of that once-honorable achievement. I’d also note (to cite a tweet) that he’s an example of the ancient dictum (that I just made up) that a country can do a lot worse than having a dissident playwright as a president. Mamet, 2012!
[Monday morning update]
More thoughts (from a couple years ago) from Bruce Bawer. And here’s a roundup over at National Review Online.
We drove up with Bill Simon yesterday, and he’s posted a bunch of pics on Picasa. It’s mostly pictures of the flight line with the canard fly-in, a lot of pictures of what’s happening at XCOR, and Burt Rutan’s “pyramid” house (which is currently being rented out).
On Fox News Sunday, Romney just attacked Newt again on lunar colonies. This is getting very annoying. Someone in Romney’s campaign or the man himself decided that bashing space is a good weapon against Gingrich. Newt should make him pay for it with a speech on the subject. I suppose I should be happy that he’s at least made it a campaign issue. It usually isn’t.
…refuses to obey the dictates of the computer models. Why oh why won’t Gaia cooperate with her socialist worshipers?
We’re going up to Plane Crazy in Mojave, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the flight of the Voyager this week, and today’s 108th anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. I expect to see a lot of canards flying in for the event.
I have a report and analysis of Tuesday’s press conference with Paul Allen and Burt Rutan over at PJMedia.
Thoughts from Nick Gillespie, Michelle Malkin, Wretchard, Rob Long, Lileks, Peter Robinson, Melissa Clouthier, John Podhoretz, James Fenton, Joy McCann, Jason Cowley, Doug Wilson, Simon Jenkins, and last but by no means least, his brother Peter.
I first recall being impressed with him in the nineties, in his fearless willingness to take on the lies of the Clintons. He was devastating, to anyone who paid attention.
[Update a while later]
The Atlantic remembers Hitchens, as does Michael Totten.
[Update late morning]
Here’s another from Pete Wehner.
[Almost noon]
And Ron Radosh weighs in.
[Early afternoon update]
David Corn: sharing an office with Hitch.
The White House remains committed to the corrupt and wasteful boondoggle.
…has been suspended? Maybe a light bulb finally turned on above their heads.
[Update a while later]
Did Obama punt on the ban?