Somehow, I think that this woman won’t win it. No prizes for wife, either.
Makes me embarrassed to hail from the Great Lake State.
A Rising Star?
CrushKerry.com says has spotted a potential dark horse candidate for 2008–Sam Brownback. Regardless of your views on his other views, this would be potentially the best possible president to continue to carry out the president’s Vision for Space Exploration, with emphasis on entrepreneurs.
[Update at 11 PM EST]
Nick Kristof is fascinated as well despite his “right-wing” views.
It Had To Happen
This is a lot better than using cell phones to set off roadside bombs. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “reach out and touch someone.” (Slightly work unsafe for both links.)
And if you’re the do-it-yourself type, here’s a site with a lot of tips for just using stuff around the house…
Check out the main site there too–not just the cell-phone pages. It’s just the place for pervs on a budget.
“Laughing At People’s Fears”
Will Saletan has a disquieting report on a recent biotech meeting.
I am largely in favor of the kinds of advances proposed here, but the community is indeed going to have to learn to respect the views of people who are concerned about it, and lighten up on the condescension, if they don’t want to see progress shut down out of ignorance.
“Laughing At People’s Fears”
Will Saletan has a disquieting report on a recent biotech meeting.
I am largely in favor of the kinds of advances proposed here, but the community is indeed going to have to learn to respect the views of people who are concerned about it, and lighten up on the condescension, if they don’t want to see progress shut down out of ignorance.
“Laughing At People’s Fears”
Will Saletan has a disquieting report on a recent biotech meeting.
I am largely in favor of the kinds of advances proposed here, but the community is indeed going to have to learn to respect the views of people who are concerned about it, and lighten up on the condescension, if they don’t want to see progress shut down out of ignorance.
The Love Generation
Here’s an interesting read from Christopher Hitchens on hippies:
Eleanor Agnew’s lovely memoir of this movement of primal innocence is at once honest and hilarious. She recaptures the period with unerring skill: a period when the Apollo mission had shown us our fragile, blue planetary home from outer space, thus promoting (first) ”The Whole Earth Catalog” and (second) a mentality that despised the science and innovation necessary for the taking of that photograph in the first place.
RTWT
What’ll You Have?
I’m originally from Popland, but I’ve been living in Sodavania for the past quarter century.
And they missed a category. In some parts of the south, it’s actually “cocola.”
The sharp division between the UP and eastern Wisconsin is fascinating. I remember back in the seventies when my cousins moved to Milwaukee from where we lived in southeast Michigan, they told me about having to get used to the new vocabulary (they also called water fountains “bubblers”–weirdos).
I’m curious about the “other.” What do they call soft drinks in New Mexico?
Further thoughts: harkening back to Albion’s Seed, it would seem that both Puritans and Quakers are soda drinkers, whereas the Presbyterians opt for coke. And the Cavaliers seem to be a mix between the two. But which folkway created the pop drinkers? (Note that it really was culturally appropriate to split off West Virginia from Virginia way back when).
What’ll You Have?
I’m originally from Popland, but I’ve been living in Sodavania for the past quarter century.
And they missed a category. In some parts of the south, it’s actually “cocola.”
The sharp division between the UP and eastern Wisconsin is fascinating. I remember back in the seventies when my cousins moved to Milwaukee from where we lived in southeast Michigan, they told me about having to get used to the new vocabulary (they also called water fountains “bubblers”–weirdos).
I’m curious about the “other.” What do they call soft drinks in New Mexico?
Further thoughts: harkening back to Albion’s Seed, it would seem that both Puritans and Quakers are soda drinkers, whereas the Presbyterians opt for coke. And the Cavaliers seem to be a mix between the two. But which folkway created the pop drinkers? (Note that it really was culturally appropriate to split off West Virginia from Virginia way back when).
What’ll You Have?
I’m originally from Popland, but I’ve been living in Sodavania for the past quarter century.
And they missed a category. In some parts of the south, it’s actually “cocola.”
The sharp division between the UP and eastern Wisconsin is fascinating. I remember back in the seventies when my cousins moved to Milwaukee from where we lived in southeast Michigan, they told me about having to get used to the new vocabulary (they also called water fountains “bubblers”–weirdos).
I’m curious about the “other.” What do they call soft drinks in New Mexico?
Further thoughts: harkening back to Albion’s Seed, it would seem that both Puritans and Quakers are soda drinkers, whereas the Presbyterians opt for coke. And the Cavaliers seem to be a mix between the two. But which folkway created the pop drinkers? (Note that it really was culturally appropriate to split off West Virginia from Virginia way back when).