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Reflections on NASA’s grim anniversaries
This post is not going to be about “NASA screwed up, how come after 40 years we still have a space ‘program’ and not a space industry, NASA is drifting off focus and no longer has a clearly defined...
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The $40 guitar
Ed Driscoll wrote a piece about evolving guitar technology in Friday’s installment of TechCentralStation, and after searching desperately for any thinly-veiled excuse to write about it, I stumbled...
View ArticleDoug Pappas 1961-2004
Sad news: Economist / baseball analyst / blogger Doug Pappas has passed away at age 43, the victim of heat stroke while vacationing in Texas. Pappas chaired the Business of Baseball committee for the...
View Article“No Exit” for LP?
The Libertarian National Convention may have reminded a few observers of Sartre’s “No Exit” – each faction selected the candidate that would deny their rival faction victory, producing a nominee with...
View ArticleBook Review: Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain and Andrew Thomson Miramax Books, 2004 It is a shame that many readers will dismiss this book...
View ArticleElection Monte Carlo
A lot of bloggers (e.g. the indefatigable Stephen Green) have been posting electoral maps and trying to anticipate who is going to win based on the latest and greatest polling data. But Green, who had...
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Final pre-election drivel
Unlike our Dale Amon, I am not going to endorse a candidate – in fact, I am rooting for a 269-269 electoral tie, just for the sake of making history – but I still find the horse race intriguing. I was...
View ArticleThe ’60s Candidate
Not only is Kerry the ’60s candidate, but he also apparently employed a campaign strategy that would have given the election in the ’60s. If Kerry had won the same bundle of states that gave him 252...
View ArticleOnion 1, IMF 0
The Onion does not always crack me up like it used to, possibly because it grows more and more difficult to effectively satirize an increasingly bizarre world. But this piece, Housemates Reject...
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Another sign we are losing the language?
Certain words, over time, have devolved from specific context to generic insult. ‘Fascist’ used to refer to a certain socioeconomic system involving nationalism and state control of industry; ‘racist’...
View ArticleDid Blogs Tip The Election?
On Thursday night, Porter’s Dining Saloon in northwest Washington played host to a symposium titled: “Did Bloggers Tip the Election?” The event, sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies at George...
View ArticleHearts of gold, ears of tin?
While driving down Virginia’s crowded Route 28 this afternoon, I heard a radio spot from our good friends at UNICEF that almost caused me to drive right off the road. The announcer solemnly intoned...
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