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July 7, 2011

Punch Lines and Party Lines

Progressives say the darndest things: ‘That’s Racist’ The accusation becomes a punch line. == ‘That’s Racist’ - Jonah Goldberg - National Review Online
Why was the space program killed? It's not rocket surgery: Obama’s Astronots "The reason is that the people who made the space administration successful did not resemble its leader. This continual reminder of the limits of “empowerment” and “diversity” could not but be destroyed. In the face of repetitive evidence of their loathsome inabilities, all who cannot achieve or emulate must annihilate."
Elsewhere In Farewell to Space-Faring, Jerry Pournelle writes the pocket history of NASA, Apollo, and the Shuttle.

What makes for a really great science fiction title?
Push this button: Make Everything OK
Show us your Obama Doctrine!Fareed Zakaria say's 'We don' got to show you no steenking Obama Doctrine!
Russian Surgeon General's Warning: Quitting Abortion Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to the Health of Your Country: Russia says abortion ads must carry health warning
Hack people's telephones, go to the boneyard: Sir Rupert Murdoch just shut down the News of the World, a London-based weekly newspaper that sells 2.8 million papers each Sunday and is said to have the largest readership of any English newspaper in the world. -- Don Surber
Michelle Obama's Mirror: After That Townhall, I’m All A’Twitter. Thrills up the leg and all that.
Typically this World Map of Useless Stereotypes @ NYTimes.com seems to ignore, yet again, the fact that New York City is not, in fact, as large as the United States of America.

Posted by Vanderleun at July 7, 2011 12:27 PM

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Since you already used provincial to describe NYC I'll use parochial. Do you think they'll understand the meaning or will they rather think I just called them a bunch of nuns?

Posted by: Mikey NTH at July 8, 2011 4:54 AM

"It was Western hands, stretching wide from the Volga to the Rio Grande, which erected such a marvel, and it was African hands which wrenched it down."

That marvel being the US-led space endeavor. Today is a sad, sad day.

Posted by: arcs at July 8, 2011 10:16 AM