Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Somewhere Christopher Reeves and Charles Krauthammer smile.
Biggest losers, all of those keyboard jihadis who want to destroy the State of Israel.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Sean Duffy, NASA’s interim administrator, proved that the U.S. is serious about establishing a lunar base when he announced the deployment of a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. The idea, although a sound one, is not without its critics.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Friday, August 15, 2025
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
PM Netanyahu: Today I'm going to make an unprecedented offer to Iran.
This was made 7 years ago, but considering the current water apocalypse looming, it had a current urgency.
Monday, August 11, 2025
Sunday, August 10, 2025
The naming of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator was as much of a surprise as was President Trump’s withdrawal of his nomination of Jared Isaacman to the same post.
So, how is Duffy doing, trying to bring the space agency out from its summer of discontent?
Saturday, August 09, 2025
Friday, August 08, 2025
Apollo 13 - Ending Scene (HD)
Thursday, August 07, 2025
Wednesday, August 06, 2025
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
Monday, August 04, 2025
Sunday, August 03, 2025
A recent poll conducted by CBS News provides an encouraging look into public support for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send humans to Mars.
Saturday, August 02, 2025
Friday, August 01, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
First thing when the Shah is restored, bring in Israeli water experts to start fixing the problem.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Monday, July 28, 2025
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Having revolutionized the space launch system and space-based telecommunications, SpaceX has fixed on a new industry to conquer. Elon Musk’s company is developing a business called Starfall which will facilitate space-based manufacturing.
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Monday, July 21, 2025
@NASAArtemis will finish what we started: we're going back to the Moon &, this time, we're STAYING! Then, we're going to MARS!
Captain Pike prays on screen to God to save his lover from certain death. If religion can be brought back to Trek, maybe free market capitalism is not far behind.
Sunday, July 20, 2025
NASA has had a difficult early summer, between a proposed budget that would eviscerate the space agency’s science programs and President Trump’s sudden withdrawal of billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman from the nomination to be administrator of NASA.
Even so, there are signs that NASA’s fortunes may be looking up.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
The consequences for NASA were dramatic and negative. Thanks to Gor’s last-minute intervention, NASA was left without a Senate-confirmed administrator for the foreseeable future. Officials warned the agency wouldn’t get a new chief approved for “at least nine months,” hampering leadership of the nation’s space program. A Trump adviser involved in the process vented frustration to Axios: “Isaacman is eminently qualified… exactly the type of person we want. And now look at it.” In short, Gor’s purity tests sacrificed a crucial agency head for a partisan grudge. Even Senate Republicans were angry. According to Axios, GOP senators privately blamed Gor for undermining the NASA pick purely to “settle a score” with Musk.
Looks like the Grima Wormtongue of the Trump administration is not pleased and is threatening to sue. I bet discovery would be fascinating,
Friday, July 18, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
Sunday, July 13, 2025
The “big, beautiful bill” recently signed into law enacted a number of tax, spending and regulatory measures. President Trump and his supporters regard the new law as a triumph. Trump’s enemies not so much.
NASA spending measures are tucked inside the bill that can best be described as ugly, or at the very least ill-advised.