Which is better than sleepless, I guess, but I’m not supposed to be in Seattle. I’m supposed to be in Edmonton, AB, but my connecting flight was cancelled for weather. Say what you want about Florida, but they never cancel airplane flights for freezing fog. Whether I eventually get there depends on whether I can go standby in the morning. Otherwise, the trip is pointless, and it’s back to LA.
Oh, well…
I’m pretty busy and don’t have time to write anything particularly profound about it (I’m about to get on a flight to the Great White North, where we may have a mini bloggerbash in Edmonton), but as I mentioned on The Space Show a couple hours ago, tomorrow will be the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire, in which Gus Grissom, Roger Chafee and Ed White were suffocated and burned. Saturday will be the twentieth anniversary of the loss of the Challenger. Here were my memories of that event from a post four years ago. Jim Oberg takes advantage of the anniversary to explode (so to speak) several myths about the disaster.
And of course, next week will be the third anniversary of Columbia’s breakup over Texas. I may have more to say on that when the date arrives.
I’ll be on The Space Show in about half an hour. You can listen live on the net.
A Canadian who doesn’t hate the US has a response to Michael Moore’s idiocy:
Michael, even though you are highly political and rub some folks on the other end of the political spectrum the wrong way, we do appreciate your unabashed enthusiasm for our country.
You might be surprised to know that there are a considerable number of us who have kind thoughts and feelings toward Americans and America, even when we differ on some the policies coming out of Washington.
We wanted to elect people to national office who reflect that view and not the American-bashing one that the Liberals have spewing out for 13 years. That is why we sent the Conservatives to Ottawa.
Brian Anderson has a long, but frightening essay in today’s Journal about the steady deterioration of our First Amendment rights to free speech under the steady pressure of campaign finance “reformers,” spending millions of their own money to ensure that we won’t be able to express our political opinions on line.
If we don’t do something to arrest this, the political blogosphere will be shut down by the election season of 2008. I, for one, say that they’ll take away my keyboard from my cold, dead fingers.
Three days before the twentieth anniversary of the Challenger loss, Clark Lindsey muses on what might have been.
Over at The Corner. Just keep scrolling up.
Over at The Corner. Just keep scrolling up.
Over at The Corner. Just keep scrolling up.
I’ll be on The Space Show tomorrow morning (Thursday, January 26th) from 9:30 to 11 AM Pacific, if anyone is possessed of sufficient masochism and fortitude to listen to my latest blather.