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Pompous is funny—Fox News proves it
Talk about looking for excuse to pile on! Fox News Channel found one and did, and Jon Stewart was there to skewer them. On last night’s The Daily Show Stewart used the coverage of a recent contretemps...
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“We are better than this; we must do better”
I knew it: I knew right away that whether or not there was any evidence that the person who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was motivated by the loudmouths on radio and TV, that some of those...
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Yea, Egypt!
It is rare, indeed, to witness an important moment in world history: I’m old enough that I saw man’s first step on the moon, I saw the Berlin Wall fall (both on TV…thank you, TV), and today my old...
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And Sheila Jackson Lee believed Neil Armstrong planted the American flag on Mars
You probably know that the United States is mothballing its fleet of space shuttles, and taking proposals from museums and such that want to adopt the three remaining orbiters. The decision on where...
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April 12
1633, Galileo convicted of heresy; 1777, Henry Clay born; 1861, America’s Civil War began; 1878, Boss Tweed died; 1947, David Letterman born; 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets recorded “Rock Around the...
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Houston, you are “go” to stop whining
Yes, it was disappointing that NASA decided not to retire a space shuttle to Houston. But a “snub?” That’s the default formulation here at home, the assumption that the intention behind yesterday’s...
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The gentleman from Pearland yields…
…for some great insight on yesterday’s topic. First, Wayne Hale, a former NASA flight director and, among other things, a one-time manager of America’s Space Shuttle Program (the big boss!), who has...
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Neil Armstrong
Today his family held a private memorial service for Neil Armstrong, who died last week at the age of 82. I’ve read a lot of the tributes to the first man to walk on the moon that have been published...
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Recommended reading: an inside story of the loss of space shuttle Columbia
This week, January 16, is the 10th anniversary of the last launch of space shuttle Columbia. If you’re interested in knowing what happened at NASA leading up to that launch and what happened in...
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The next time someone says space travel isn’t dangerous…
…suggest that they read this: Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano’s first person account of his most recent spacewalk, during which he nearly drowned inside his helmet. …just as I’m thinking about how to...
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Furlough Journal: Here we go…out the door
I really didn’t need all this fuss to let me know that my job is “non-essential,” you know. Since Congress couldn’t come to an agreement on a new government spending plan by the deadline last night, we...
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Furlough Journal: It’s starting to get serious
An update from my little corner of the partial government shutdown: it continues, but I’m just back. This past week I’ve been on a vacation that was planned and approved well before the PGS began, but...
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Yea, Egypt!
It is rare, indeed, to witness an important moment in world history: I’m old enough that I saw man’s first step on the moon, I saw the Berlin Wall fall (both on TV…thank you, TV), and today my old...
View ArticleClik here to view.
And Sheila Jackson Lee believed Neil Armstrong planted the American flag on Mars
You probably know that the United States is mothballing its fleet of space shuttles, and taking proposals from museums and such that want to adopt the three remaining orbiters. The decision on where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
April 12
1633, Galileo convicted of heresy; 1777, Henry Clay born; 1861, America’s Civil War began; 1878, Boss Tweed died; 1947, David Letterman born; 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets recorded “Rock Around the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Houston, you are “go” to stop whining
Yes, it was disappointing that NASA decided not to retire a space shuttle to Houston. But a “snub?” That’s the default formulation here at home, the assumption that the intention behind yesterday’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The gentleman from Pearland yields…
…for some great insight on yesterday’s topic. First, Wayne Hale, a former NASA flight director and, among other things, a one-time manager of America’s Space Shuttle Program (the big boss!), who has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recommended reading: an inside story of the loss of space shuttle Columbia
This week, January 16, is the 10th anniversary of the last launch of space shuttle Columbia. If you’re interested in knowing what happened at NASA leading up to that launch and what happened in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Furlough Journal: Here we go…out the door
I really didn’t need all this fuss to let me know that my job is “non-essential,” you know. Since Congress couldn’t come to an agreement on a new government spending plan by the deadline last night, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Furlough Journal: It’s starting to get serious
An update from my little corner of the partial government shutdown: it continues, but I’m just back. This past week I’ve been on a vacation that was planned and approved well before the PGS began, but...
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