Maybe they’ll get one.
There certainly is a lot of material on parade here to show just how wacky the left can get.
Haptic Exoskeletons
…that allow the paralyzed to walk. Not a flying car, but it seems pretty twenty-first century.
“Steve Jobs Was A Kind Man”
Accomplice To Murder
Does Eric Holder have a lot more to worry about than mere perjury charges? And continuing kudos to Sharyl Attkisson at CBS.
A Cure For Diabetes
…using your own stem cells? That would be huge.
Comment Du Jour
Over at John Boot’s review of the latest hairball to be hacked up by George Clooney and Hollywood, check out comment #25:
This web site has delved into sickness. How can anyone with any compassion attack George Clooney? He is a great man who works tirelessly to help the less fortunate. I read this article and was so blown away by the author’s ignorance that I felt compelled to call my Life Coach. I needed some immediate advice and direction. Sasha told me to channel my feelings toward the source of my anger, but to do so in a creative way that, hopefully, will penetrate the thick ignorant armor of my instigators. So here is my attempt to reach all of you through that ancient poetic art form of Haiku:
Crazy neocons
destructive and hateful
gay killers
never bi-curious
haters of life
snuffers of hope
negro president?
destroy!
mocha cappucino?
HATE!Please take the time to digest this. I’m really hoping that it will reach some of you before your hate engulfs us all.
I can’t decide if it’s serious or a gag.
Which reminds me. A commenter at Space Politics named Grondine keeps talking about how the “neocons” have screwed up NASA. I repeatedly ask him what he thinks a “neocon” is, and to provide some examples, but he never does so.
You Know What This Country Doesn’t Need?
An escalation of the War on (Some) Drugs.
Between this and the NASA IG thing, Lamar Smith is looking more and more like a moron.
The Climate Alarmists
Who funds them?
The Jobs Rule
More thoughts from Rich Lowry:
The government can care for the needy; it can field a military and do much else besides. But it can’t dream. It can’t let its imagination run wild and pursue an individual vision with a ruthless determination. It can’t conjure new and profitable industries out of nothing.
Again, contrast NASA with SpaceX.
Ashamed To Be From Michigan
Trust me, this doofus is not really representative of my home state. I love the way he points to his hand to show where Saginaw is.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorting out the “extremists.”
“Extreme” is a funny word these days. It’s often used by mainstream news outlets to describe the tea parties and the tea-party-friendly caucus in the GOP.
For instance, when those hotheads in tricorn hats were trying to get the government to borrow slightly less than 40 cents for every dollar Washington spends, the conventional wisdom among enlightened liberals, the Obama administration, and the other usual suspects was that they were “extremists.”
Senate majority leader Harry Reid blasted said extremists as “heartless” for daring to suggest that the exploding federal debt might require cutting subsidies for “cowboy poets.”
Meanwhile, the sock-headed spokesman for the protesters wants to “overthrow the government.”
And yet, if you peruse LexisNexis, you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone calling him or his more radical confreres “extremists.”
You also won’t hear them being called racists, even though the Occupy Wall Street movement is mostly white. Personally, I don’t think the racial composition of the “99 percenters” is relevant, but the fact that the tea partiers are mostly white has been cited time and again as evidence of nascent racism. After all, what other explanation could there be for a mass movement opposed to the first black president’s policies? (Never mind that the most popular tea-party politician these days is Herman Cain, who, in case you hadn’t noticed, is black.)
[Update later morning]
Protesters freak out when questioned by reporters.
It’s all about the narrative.