…for Lara Logan.
My lack of respect for Katie Couric continues unabated, however.
*This is the phrase that lefty journalists use when a “right winger” adopts the politically correct position.
Live From ComicCon
The Barenekkid Ladies sing the theme from The Big Bang Theory. Unfortunately, Wil Wheaton introduces them.
Is there any band with a more fraudulent name than the Barenaked Ladies? If I’d ever paid to see them, I’d sue.
Klaus Heiss
RIP.
Paul Spudis had some recollections of Klaus when he heard about his stroke back in February. I hadn’t seen him since the AIAA space meeting in San Jose in the fall of 2006. I first met him back in the eighties, at a AAS conference in DC, and I worked closely with his company, ECON, in the eighties and nineties, though he wasn’t very involved at that time. Many blame him for the flawed ops cost projections for the Shuttle, but he never intended that it be so misdesigned as it was, with the solid boosters and expendable tank.
Anyway, ad astra, Klaus. The space movement has lost another visionary.
Matt Labash
…doesn’t seem to fear having his…whatever shoved through a plate-glass window. His thoughts on Mr. Ackerman:
From his hermetically sealed masturbatorium, he can…rhetorically threaten people who have soft hands and who type about politics for a living, but who could still pound the Bad Brains out of him (punk reference!) if they ever came face to face, even if it devolved into a girls-school windmill slap-fight, which it probably would. Though they won’t come face-to-face, of course, because being a tough-guy Washington blogger is a bit like being a phone-sex operator: you can pretend you’re sexy, even when you’re wearing a ratty terry cloth robe, hot curlers, and bunny slippers. Just like as a tough guy blogger, you can pretend on the outside that you want to crease the skull of Frank Foer with a baseball bat or annihilate Ryan Lizza in front of his toddler, while on the inside, you’re a moony-eyed trembling fanboy who writes unicorn-and-silly-bandz sentences such as “Yes we did!” when your swain wins an election. Which is sooo not punk rock. But that’s where the Black Flag t-shirt comes in. It’s a symbol. And what it symbolizes is that Hackerman is a dangerous man, not to be trifled with, since Black Flag was an ur-punk band whose former lead singer, Henry Rollins, was a genuine American badass, the Attackerman of his day. You could tell this, because he swore a lot, and wore tight black t-shirts. Even now, screwing with Rollins is like making a death wish. There’s no telling what that muscled wall of menace might do. He might write a really bitchy spoken-word piece about you, then release it as a podcast.
There’s a lot more where that came from. I wouldn’t want to be these “progressive” dweebs. Of course, I would have never wanted to.
[Via Treacher]
Quake in your boots.
Did I Call It, Or What?
I just ran across this old post of mine from two and a half years ago:
I’m reminded by a commenter that today is the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I had never really thought about the date before–it hadn’t occurred to me that it took place in the winter in Boston. What did Narragansetts wear in that clime?
Anyway, sometimes, particularly given how little difference there is between the two parties, I think we’re overdue for another one.
See, Rick Santelli just channeled me a little over a year later.
A Vast, White-Wing Conspiracy
Wow, it’d be hard to find a more Caucasian demographic than the JournoList, other than the MSNBC host lineup and the burglars in the Broadview Security commercials. They’re probably racists.
[Update Sunday morning]
Was Sharrod pushed out by a bunch of West-Wing white guys?
See, I told you — racists all.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Obama administration doesn’t know when to hold or fold the race card.
[Bumped]
More Democrats’ War On Science
The Inspector General of the Interior Department is investigating claims that the department officials falsified a report:
In response to a request from Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee, the Department of Interior’s acting Inspector General, Mary Kendall, announced she is opening an investigation into whether a Department of Interior report recommending an offshore drilling ban was manipulated to appear as if the ban was endorsed by seven experts from the National Academy of Engineers.
The report endorsed a six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, and explicitly stated “the recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.” The National Academy of Engineers experts responded to the report by noting that their views had been misprepresented and that a drilling ban “will not measurably reduce risk further and it will have a lasting impact on the nation’s economy which may be greater than that of the oil spill.”
I expect she’ll get the Walpin treatment. Perhaps including the accusation that she’s senile.
From Ban Ki-Moon
This is my favorite spam scam so far:
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I’ll be sure to do that.
Transhumanism
Why it’s the best bet to prevent the extinction of humanity.
I haven’t read the whole thing, but I’m sure there’s a lot of food for thought there. And breaking out into space (which will become much easier with these new technologies) is probably one of the pieces of the puzzle.
A Uniter, Not A Divider
Apparently, the latest dribblings from the JournoList reveal that the left and right can find common ground — Keith Olbermann is an @n@l orifice.