Political Commentary

The Republican “Debate”

I didn’t watch it. Yeah, I know it was on, but it’s just too early for me to care. And I also think that these so-called “debates” are a bad joke. Particularly when the questions are loaded by liberal moderators.

But NRO did, and had a lot of live blogging on The Corner (no, not even going to link to specific posts–scroll, if you care). But Rich Lowry had some post-debate thoughts, and this was one that resonated strongly with me:

Rudy’s getting hit hard on his Roe answer. But it wasn’t a gaffe and it perfectly represented his view

Political Commentary

The Republican “Debate”

I didn’t watch it. Yeah, I know it was on, but it’s just too early for me to care. And I also think that these so-called “debates” are a bad joke. Particularly when the questions are loaded by liberal moderators.

But NRO did, and had a lot of live blogging on The Corner (no, not even going to link to specific posts–scroll, if you care). But Rich Lowry had some post-debate thoughts, and this was one that resonated strongly with me:

Rudy’s getting hit hard on his Roe answer. But it wasn’t a gaffe and it perfectly represented his view

Political Commentary

The Republican “Debate”

I didn’t watch it. Yeah, I know it was on, but it’s just too early for me to care. And I also think that these so-called “debates” are a bad joke. Particularly when the questions are loaded by liberal moderators.

But NRO did, and had a lot of live blogging on The Corner (no, not even going to link to specific posts–scroll, if you care). But Rich Lowry had some post-debate thoughts, and this was one that resonated strongly with me:

Rudy’s getting hit hard on his Roe answer. But it wasn’t a gaffe and it perfectly represented his view

Space

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.

Space History

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.

Science And Society

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.

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