And bad news for the Democrats who want to surrender. The Sunnis are finally figuring out which side they should want to be on. I guess they’re realizing that Al Qaeda is not, in the words of bin Laden, the “strong horse.”
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
The glove challenge has been won.
This has been a problem for my entire career, and was one of the first issues that I worked on out of college. But I think we made more progress on it in the last three years than we have in the three decades prior, because we finally put the right incentives in place. I hope that this will be a big boost for the prize concept in general. Congratulations to the winner, and to Ken Davidian and Brant Sponberg.
A By-God Astronaut
Lileks has (among other things) a tribute to Wally.
Another Of The Seven Gone?
I’m hearing rumors that Wally Schirra died last night.
[Update a couple minutes later]
OK, apparently Keith heard it on CNN as well.
So, Grissom, Slayton, Schirra, Shepard are gone. Besides Glenn, who’s still with us?
[googling]
OK, Cooper is dead, so it’s just Glenn and Carpenter. They could hold a reunion in a phone booth. And I see that Wikipedia has already updated the Mercury 7 page to reflect Schirra’s passing.
[Update at 12:30 PM EDT]
Here’s the obit from CNN.
Hadn’t thought about that, but it’s true, he was the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Fire The Copy Editor
…at the New York Post–he’s falling down on the job. They could have taken that alliterative headline to the mth degree: “MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE MOVIE MIFFS MORMON MITT.”
Save The Planet
We’ll just starve all those pesky Asians:
…the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting this week in Bangkok concludes that rice production was a main cause of rising methane emissions in the 20th century. It calls for better controls.
“There is no other crop that is emitting such a large amount of greenhouse gases,” said Reiner Wassmann, a climate change specialist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
Laws
…that every bloggist should know.
End It, Don’t Win It
Donald Sensing, on the absurd mental gymnastics that Democrats must perform to want to end a war that doesn’t exist. As he says, one side can start a war, but it takes both to end it. And Al Qaeda, either in Afghanistan or Iraq, isn’t ready to quit. Particularly when, based on the actions of the Dems, they think they’re winning.
End It, Don’t Win It
Donald Sensing, on the absurd mental gymnastics that Democrats must perform to want to end a war that doesn’t exist. As he says, one side can start a war, but it takes both to end it. And Al Qaeda, either in Afghanistan or Iraq, isn’t ready to quit. Particularly when, based on the actions of the Dems, they think they’re winning.
End It, Don’t Win It
Donald Sensing, on the absurd mental gymnastics that Democrats must perform to want to end a war that doesn’t exist. As he says, one side can start a war, but it takes both to end it. And Al Qaeda, either in Afghanistan or Iraq, isn’t ready to quit. Particularly when, based on the actions of the Dems, they think they’re winning.