As a former Michiganian (not “Michigander,” which is an atrocity on the language) now living in the Sunshine State, I laughed out loud at this exchange over at Free Republic (in response to the embarrassing disquisition on American map-reading ability by the unfortunate beauty pageant contestant):
Just be glad she wasn
Often, when Congresspeople get in some sort of trouble, it’s a puzzler figuring out what their political party is. Apparently, though, the WaPo has learned the error of its previous ways. They are right up front about this Senator, for some reason:
GOP Senator Pleaded Guilty After Restroom Arrest
I’m glad that they’ve finally stopped making us guess. At least until the next time. It does take some fun out of it, though.
Clark Lindsey addresses the ludicrous, but widespread notion that there is something different about space passenger travel that makes it so fragile that the industry will somehow be destroyed by a single accident.
I suspect that the source of this is the same one that causes us to irrationally grieve astronauts that we’ve never met, and demand that no more ever die. There seems to be something different about space in the minds of many that causes people to check their brains at the door when discussing it.
It’s just another place, people. Folks are going to die opening up frontiers, as they always have. Get over it.
Clark Lindsey addresses the ludicrous, but widespread notion that there is something different about space passenger travel that makes it so fragile that the industry will somehow be destroyed by a single accident.
I suspect that the source of this is the same one that causes us to irrationally grieve astronauts that we’ve never met, and demand that no more ever die. There seems to be something different about space in the minds of many that causes people to check their brains at the door when discussing it.
It’s just another place, people. Folks are going to die opening up frontiers, as they always have. Get over it.
Clark Lindsey addresses the ludicrous, but widespread notion that there is something different about space passenger travel that makes it so fragile that the industry will somehow be destroyed by a single accident.
I suspect that the source of this is the same one that causes us to irrationally grieve astronauts that we’ve never met, and demand that no more ever die. There seems to be something different about space in the minds of many that causes people to check their brains at the door when discussing it.
It’s just another place, people. Folks are going to die opening up frontiers, as they always have. Get over it.
Affirmative action is keeping blacks out of the legal profession. Get out the crayolas and color me shocked. As the article points out, good intentions aren’t enough, and when they implement racist policies, they’re all the more egregious.
[Late evening update]
Jeff Goldstein has further thoughts.
Early tomorrow morning. Best viewed on the left coast and west, since it will be too close to dawn in the east.
Early tomorrow morning. Best viewed on the left coast and west, since it will be too close to dawn in the east.
Early tomorrow morning. Best viewed on the left coast and west, since it will be too close to dawn in the east.
This is interesting, and a little disturbing. We’re going to have to come up with better ways to fight these things.