The LA Times is going to start running ads on its front page. Patterico:
The paper already runs ads for Democrats on the front page. They might as well get paid for it.
As he notes, it’s painful to watch a slow death, even when it’s well deserved.
The First Anglosphere Revolution
Jim Bennett has a review of Michael Barone’s interesting new book
Fire and Ice Conundrum
In Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone episode “Midnight Sun” posed the conundrum (a riddle with a pun as the answer) whether the world would end in global warming or cooling. Robert Frost also pondered this riddle in his 1920 poem.
I think I have the answer: “Fire!”
The pun is that this is what you say to clear a crowded movie theater. Now that you have the punchline, you can get the setup in my column in The Space Review which is up.
Something Else That Happened On July 16th
Thirty-eight years ago, Apollo XI left Cape Canaveral, and headed off to the moon. Friday is the anniversary of the landing. I’ll be at the Space Frontier Conference, but for those who aren’t doing that, you have all week to plan a Friday-night celebration and commemoration of the epochal event.
Happy Birthday, Taryn
I was just looking up the bio of the young woman who made the hilarious (and catchy and sexy) spoof Hillary campaign video, and she was reportedly born on July 16th.
New Space Blogger
Brian Swiderski has taken our advice, and started a blog on space. Like most of his previous commentary on space (and little of his “progressive” commentary on anything else), it’s worth a read. It could be particularly useful for him and Ferris Valyn to educate the left on the benefits of space and spaceflight, and shoot down a lot of the egregious nonsense about it from that sector, by people who can speak their language:
Everything is a playground for the rich–that’s why most people find becoming rich desirable. However, in this case “conspicuous consumption” may result in a virtuous circle of cost reductions and greater investment, which would increasingly open space to the general public. To have the wealthy pay for the infrastructure of future generations is at the core of progressive economic values, and it makes little sense to be offended when doing so occurs voluntarily.
Mystery Departure
No, I have no idea why Horowitz is leaving the agency. I do know, though, that the story about “spending more time with the family” is usually code for something else. He obviously knows things about The Shaft that the rest of us don’t, but it’s not obvious that he’s a rat leaving a sinking ship. On the other hand, it’s certainly possible.
Also, I’ve heard rumors that one of the names in the DC madam’s little black book was a high-ranking NASA official, but again, no particular reason to believe that it’s him, even if they’re true.
Either way, as Thomas James notes, it would be nice if he’d take his toy with him, but it’s unlikely.
[Update a few minutes later]
Chair Force Engineer, who has been speculating about Orion’s mass issues, has further thoughts.
He’s Dead, Jim
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.
He’s Dead, Jim
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.
He’s Dead, Jim
I’ve long thought that, despite CIA claims to the contrary (I mean, it’s not like the CIA is a reliable source), Osama has been dead for years. Here’s a Koranic interpretation of the latest “new” (really old) video, that speculates that it’s preparatory to an announcement that he’s gotten his virgins.