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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: Space Exploration
Life on Mars
The debate last night included some astounding nonsense about the president’s space policy. Moreover, the remarks in question are counterfactual and dissonant. From the fast transcript, edited for coherence: Romney: Get rid of subsidies. I spent time with 8 people … Continue reading
Space Shuttle: the Complete Missions
Can you pack thirty years of space flight history into eight minutes of video? At NASA, they’re always working on the cutting-edge, so the answer is yes.
Are We Alone In The Universe? “Highly Unlikely”
It seems the universe may be full of earths. NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien: And that is such a significant moment, because, when you consider Kepler was looking at a little piece of our sky, one-four-hundredth of the nighttime sky, and in … Continue reading
Watch This Space
While we were watching that shiny balloon last week, the internet was abuzz over the news that deep-space exploration just became much faster — and more likely. It’s what Zandar, Mighty Destroyer of Stupid, calls an “Epic Civ4 Technology Win.” … Continue reading
Meeting Buzz Aldrin
I met Buzz Aldrin when I was six. Y’know, walked on the moon with Neal Armstrong? Seriously — I’m not making this up. He walked on the moon, it wasn’t faked, I promise. (Isn’t it a sad measure of our … Continue reading
Moonshot
My colleague Bob Cesca marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch with video of the historic event. What did I do? Played the heck outta some Moon Lander! Subscribe in a reader
