This is great: Lisa Simpson crossed with Bane.
[Friday-morning update]
[Via Sarah Hoyt]
Asteroid Hunting
Casey Dreier has an interesting history of how NASA finally got a decent budget to fulfill its planetary-defense mandate.
Lawsuit Update
We thought we were going to hear next week if SCOTUS would grant our petition for certiori, but just heard that they’ve delayed it to the next conference on October 11. Apparently at least one justice is interested, but we can’t know if that’s because they want to move it to a less-crowded conference than next week’s for fuller discussion, or because they know they’ll turn it down, but want to write a dissent.
Bridget Phetasy
An open letter to the Democrat Party, on why she’s now a former Democrat.
[Early-afternoon update]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
The “Whistleblower”
As I’m listening to the current idiocy on the Hill, some thoughts from a former CIA analyst and staffer.
This reminds me of Democrat sandbagging with the Blasey Ford situation.
[Update a few minutes later]
The “Whistleblower Report” follows the same template as the Steele “Dossier.”
Yes, there seems to be a lot of circular reporting to make it appear that there is more corroboration than there actually is.
[Update a few minutes later]
Adam Schiff makes up his own version of the phone call. Schiff is a clown, who shouldn’t be in Congress, let alone a committee chairman.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I’m sure you’ll be as surprised as I am to learn that the “whistleblower” had a bias toward a rival candidate to Trump.
The Kavanaugh “scandal”
The other victim.
She’s lucky she wasn’t called a nut and a slut, as they were going to do with Lewinsky.
The asymmetry here is striking with these horrible people. In the case of Clinton, they were pressuring women to lie to protect a rapist. In this case, they pressured a woman to lie to falsely accuse a good man of being a rapist. In both cases, these people who (in some cases are the same people) hold themselves up as righteous paragons of virtue, though they are in fact monsters seeking nothing but power.
Oops
Wayne Hale remembers a flawed safety design from the early Shuttle days.
The Ukraine Hysteria
Like “Russian collusion,” (and like almost everything the Left accuses others of), it’s pure projection on the part of the Democrats.
[Update a while later]
Why the Democrats are going insane.
Cats
Yes, of course they bond with their owners.
Ember is almost a year old now (how time flies) and he’s almost like a dog in his desire for affection. Ashe is a little more aloof, but she likes to be on my lap while I work.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Per requests in comments, here are some pics. These are the kittens on the stairs, a few days after we got them at Christmas. Ashe is on the left, and we didn’t know that Ember (who was smaller at the time) was a boy. [Bumped]
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She’s briefly profiled in an article on many notable women.