Bill Roggio says the troops in Iraq don’t have a very high opinion of the press:
While waiting to manifest on the flight to Fallujah, CNN played a news segment of President Bush announcing there would be no
Champions Of Death
Alec Rawls writes about the anti-Norman Borlaugs, Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore.
Liberaltarians?
Brink Lindsey, on a potential alliance between Dems and libertarians.
Brink’s a smart guy, but I don’t think so. There are too many irreconcilable differences–on guns, on the role of the government, etc.–to put together a workable coalition. In addition, I continue to object to calling collectivists liberals. In many ways, they’re the exact opposite. I’m a liberal.
Home, Home On The Missile Range
Here’s an article in the Jackson Hole Star Tribune about Frontier Astronautics, a company that has set up shop in an abandoned Atlas silo outside Chugwater, Wyoming.
One More BCS Thought
I have some updates on my previous post, but I have one more question. Who here really believes that Florida would have jumped Michigan, from number four to number three, if USC had won?
Growing Acceptance
The scientific community is starting to believe in life extension. There’s still a lot of resistance, though, as the discussion about grant titling indicates. There’s an old saying (generated, I believe, in the wake of Kuhn’s Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
Bypassing The Moon?
This is an interesting concept, but I think that it would be a tough sell politically, partially because of the false lessons learned from ISS:
The notional mission design that Farquhar presented is based on what he calls the
A Flight From Science?
A Welsh theologian laments the lack of rational discourse in today’s society.
Avoiding Genocide
I Like It
Amidst discoursing on cold winters and Superman, Lileks coins a new word: bloggist (ah, I see that the spell checquer in Firefox doesn’t recognize it–I’ll have to add it to the dictionary…done):
Want to bet that his identity was safe at the end of the comic? Would you care to wager that the Girl of Tomorrow, who came from the future to use mind-reading powers to trap an alien into a loveless marriage