More Hollywood Nitwittery

George, one of your progenitors in Hollywood once said, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.”

”The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we’re doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.

Yes, I’d say unbelievable is exactly the right word.

”On the personal level it was how does a good person turn into a bad person, and part of the observation of that is that most bad people think they are good people, they are doing it for the right reasons,” he added.

Of course, most lousy directors and hackneyed script writers think they’re brilliant, profound and insightful.

I’ll probably go see the movie, but only for the special effects, which is all that Lucas was ever really any good at.

Depolarize Lunar Exploration

In the latest issue of Moon Miners’ Manifesto and Ad Astra Peter Kokh makes the point in “Perfect Spot Found for Moonbase?” that R&D for living everywhere except the poles would open up a lot more of the Moon to utilization especially the mare/highland “coastline”. Good point! But let’s do both. Let’s colonize the easiest place to colonize too.

He did say that if the government puts a base at the pole that the rest of the Moon might never get developed. This is an error. In 500 years of 2% growth, the average worker will be able to fund their own Elon Musk-style orbital space program 5 times over with one year’s income. See a comical look into the future here.

Couldn’t Wait?

Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…

Couldn’t Wait?

Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…

Couldn’t Wait?

Hurricane season doesn’t start officially for two more weeks (June 1st), but the first named storm has already appeared. It’s starting in the wrong place (the Pacific–they usually originate in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa) and headed in the wrong direction (northeast, instead of west). That won’t stop it from threatening Florida, though, if it survives its excursion across Central America. Time to check the supplies…

Culture Of Death And Violence

In the midst of all the foofaraw over Newsweek’s eagerness to libel the Bush administration, Iowahawk has a story that’s been much less reported:

The debris-strewn streets of this remote Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour curfew tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock- and figurine-throwing Lutheran farm wives that left over 200 people injured and leveled the Whippy Dip dairy freeze. The rioting appeared to be prompted, in part, by a report in Newsweek magazine claiming military guards at Spirit Lake

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