Curmudgeons Corner

Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.

Sunday, August 30, 2026

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Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

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What China’s delay means for the US-China moon race The liftoff of China’s Chang’e 7 mission to the moon has been delayed into 2027. Ars Te...

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China removes two top generals from supreme military command body

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What could the Artemis IV astronauts discover on the Moon?

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The race to establish the first Moon base is on. And the stakes couldn't be higher

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Exclusive: SpaceX Lays Groundwork For Turbine-Blade Factory to Solve Data Center Power Crunch

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Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

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Roman Space Telescope Mission

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NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission

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Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective
Saturday, August 29, 2026

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How JK Rowling became famous, beloved, and reviled

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Trump Fixin' to Double Proven US Oil Reserves in a Move As Smooth As the Orinoco Flows

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Trump Signs Order to Create US Space Academy, New Pipeline for Space Force and NASA

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"That sucker is open": U.S. gains the upper hand in the battle for Hormuz

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Net Zero Won't Fix Climate Change. Technology Will

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Here’s what we know about the “space academy” Trump just announced

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Top 10 Roman Space Telescope science breakthroughs

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Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

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World’s first computer vision-guided brain tumor surgery rescues man’s failing eyesight

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Artificial Criticism of Artificial Intelligence?

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Mike Rogers’s Plan to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed
Friday, August 28, 2026

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Ted Cruz fires 2028 warning shot against JD Vance, but his lane is uncertain

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A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft

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Lessons from the fracking fights

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It’s the socialism, stupid: The DSA may cost Dems their blue wave

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Bodegas of New York unite

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How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

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The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t

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A Common Vaccine May Protect the Heart for Years After the Shot

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Dolly Parton Was a Music Legend, But She Helped Science in Ways Most Fans Never Knew About

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UCSF QBI Awarded $46M to Translate Landmark Autism Map Into Precision Therapies

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Dolly Parton Leaves Us Wanting More

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A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

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Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

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The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

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Don’t Let Terrorists Run Nonpr ofits

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You’re Living Longer, Americans

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Would Putin Really Tangle With NATO?
Thursday, August 27, 2026

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars’

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SpaceX plans to build a $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana

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NASA administrator suggests putting data centers in space

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A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft

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With launch of Roman telescope, NASA hopes to unlock mystery of dark energy

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A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?

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Moon Dust May Be Hiding a 100-Million-Year Record of Exploding Stars

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Alzheimer's Damage in Mice Reversed With Just Two Injections

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Nix on Nixon: How to Defeat the DSA in the Midterms

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The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

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Much Ado About Artificial Intelligence

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Texas School Choice Helps the Not-Rich

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A Pancreatic Cancer Revolution
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.

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Deloitte puts the lunar economy at up to $566 billion by 2050—and SpaceX is speeding the timeline

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NASA, Advanced Space team up for CAPSTONE follow-on mission

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The future of medicine just arrived

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How NASA is prepping for lunar traffic jams

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SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport

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A Pill Designed to Mimic the Positive Effects of Exercise Just Passed Its First Human Safety Test

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FDA-Cleared Alzheimer’s Blood Test Marks a Shift Toward Earlier, Less Invasive Diagnosis

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Josh Shapiro Finds the Sensible Middle on Data Centers

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Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

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Dolly Parton, the Only Voice in the World

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Ascendant No More, Democrats Are a Coalition of the Pathetic

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The Metals Lobby’s Big Steal
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

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Somalia: Somali Pirates Hijack Sanctioned Oil Tanker Off Yem en

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Operation Economic Outcast is a recipe for success against Iran

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How the first pandemic in history shook the Ro man Empire

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A Smartphone Navigation App for People with Blindness and Low Vision

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This Suitcase-Sized Spacecraft Could Detect a Signal From Before Stars Existed

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The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

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Trump Persuades Europe

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El-Sayed Abandons the Middle

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Trump Unleashes Scott Bessent on Iran
Monday, August 24, 2026

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Launching 10,000 tiny 'femtosats' to Saturn? NASA funds 18 futuristic spaceflight ideas

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Randy Mastro goes to war against Mamdani amid the pied-à-terre tax rollout

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Linguist: “Maybe we'll be able to talk to whales within 20 years”

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A Mother’s Age Can Affect Her Offspring in Ways Scientists Are Only Starting to Understand

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A promising new weight loss and diabetes treatment helps burn fat while keeping muscle

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Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

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AOC’s Craaazy Economic Theory Lives On

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Ukraine’s Next Missile Defense: Starlink?

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Now California Is Coming for Your Tires
Sunday, August 23, 2026

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How should the moon and Mars be governed? With the Artemis program going full out to establish a base on the moon and with dreams by SpaceX...

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University of Houston regents approve removal of 133 courses from its core curriculum

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China's bid for lunar water launches Sunday as the new space race heats up

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NASA's Roman telescope is built to find what Hubble and Webb miss

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How will NASA's astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?

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Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

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Yes, Trump Is Right: The Strait of Hormuz Is Open and Iran Is in Trouble

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The Welfare Reform Act at 30: Work is still the answer

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Ice cream can be traced back to a frozen milk dish from the 7th century.
Saturday, August 22, 2026

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What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From the Greats

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People Who Live Past 100 Have a Surprising Abundance of Cancer-Killing Immune Cells

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SpaceX Is Racking Up Wins in Washington

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How a failed project could help solve the world’s biggest energy need

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Climate Change is Making Us Stupid

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Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

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Trump Is Right: Judges Can’t Be Construction Foreme n

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Trump Has a Beef With Tariffs

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Trump’s Iran Credibility Problem
Friday, August 21, 2026

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New space transportation policy focuses on increased launch rates

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Artemis III Commander on 'sense of urgency' ahead of mission

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SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a few months,' Elon Musk says

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NASA Is Building a Moon Base – and the First Pieces Are Already Coming Together

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The best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried and true.

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The Wild Theory That Alzheimer’s Is a Plumbing Issue

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The World’s Largest Trapped Ion Quantum Computer Just Showed What Comes After Supercomputers

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A Hidden Pattern in Your Saliva Can Predict Risk of Colorectal Cancer, Study Finds

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The ‘Medicare for All’ Math Doesn’t Add Up

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Dissent Grows Among Russia’s Political Elites

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China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history

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Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

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Americans Are Getting Caught in the Safety Net

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The Supreme Court’s Popular Mandate

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Ro Khanna Gets a Wealth Tax Education
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