From the New York Times: From 2002 until this year, NASA's mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: "To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA
I'm afraid we're not surprised by this, but at least everyone seems to be paying attention now: Queens Blackout May Last Through the Weekend And it only took four days of complaining! (Via █████.)
But sometimes our mayor is pretty funny, as in this bit from AM New York: "The sad thing is, this shouldn't have happened," Bloomberg said. "We don't know why, but the most important thing—make sure nobody dies or gets hurt and then
What's that blocking traffic up ahead? Oh, nothing just a Tomahawk Missile. Heh heh. http://wcbs880.com/pages/59470.php (Via █████.)
Never again would be too soon to hear the phrase "war-torn Lebanon" one more time.
Ding! dong! Ken Lay is dead! This is one of those fleeting moments when one hopes the Devil is real.
Tim Grieve in this morning's Salon War Room: What Colbert did to the president and the press corps is news: He didn't shoot anybody Saturday night at the Hinckley Hilton, but he laid them out in just about every other way imaginable. It was as an
Apropos of my recent post about the silly "natural family" resolution adopted by the city council of Kanab, UT, I have news of a new web site: http://www.whatsupwithkanab.com Check it out, click around, and sign their petition if you feel like it.
The city council of Kanab, Utah, has unanimously endorsed a non-binding "Natural Family Resolution" that promotes the claustrophobic values of '50s America. You know, that nice women-belong-in-the-kitchen morality that had grown across the nation like kudzu on a railway trestle, smothering everything
Happy President's Day (2004) from Loudon Wainwright III. If wishes were fishes...
Not to be an insensitive jerk, but wouldn't a proper tribute to Rosa Parks involve not giving up your seat at the front of the bus?
█████ and I, like many of you, are listening to the president nominate his White House counsel, who has never served as a judge, to the Supreme Court, and we are feeling angry and nauseated.
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