Just in the way of a reminder I will be on The Space Show tonight at 10 PM Easter to give my words of wisdom about the Trump space policy and related topics.

Does Donald Trump really want to slash climate change research?

The media, such as the UK Guardian, is replete with stories on the theme of “#Donald Trump wants to scrap #Climate Change research” and with the accompanying “We’re all going to die of global warming,” echoing the cry from the millennial DNC staffer named Zach who cussed out Donna Brazille for shortening his life by failing to stop Trump. While the idea of draining the climate change swamp, as politicized as any area of science ever was, to pay for more #Space exploration is beguiling, the people who are panicking are not understanding what game Trump is playing.

Canada's Justin Trudeau becomes a world-wide laughing stock

The death of Fidel Castro, the monster that has blighted Cuba for the past nearly six decades, may have another casualty. The collateral damage seems to be the reputation of #Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose accolade for the fallen tyrant has made him the laughing stock of the world.

Episode of 'Timeless' depicts real life math genius Katherine Johnson

“Timeless,” the NBC series about three time-traveling special operatives who hop from historical period to historical period, took us to July 20, 1969, in its most recent episode, the day man landed on the moon. Our heroes, engineering genius Rufus, historian Lucy, and soldier Wyatt, have to stop the time traveling criminal Garcia Flynn from turning civilization’s greatest triumph to a tragedy by stranding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. The series, as in previous episodes, depicts real-life historical figures, including a hitherto unsung hero named Katherine Johnson.

Tomorrow, starting at 10 PM eastern, I'm handing out words of wisdom on Donald Trump's space policy and related topics on The Space Show.

Francois Fillon about to make a political revolution in France

Hot Air notes that French #politics are about to take a turn that is as earth shaking, in its own way, as what just happened in the United States. A round of voting called “the conservative primary” has propelled a man named Francois Fillon to become the favorite to become the next president of the French Republic. This development is a hopeful one for a couple of reasons.

Writers of 'Star Wars: Rogue One' offer slam against Donald Trump

“Star Wars: Rogue One” is an eagerly awaited film depicting the operation that stole the plans for the Death Star, something that featured so prominently in the first film that hit the theaters in 1977 and changed science fiction cinema forever. However, the writers of the movie, Chris Weitz and Gary Whitta, decided to pop off, somewhat indirectly, about Donald Trump on Twitter, according to Heatstreet, Weitz declared, “Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organization.” Team Trump have been scurrilously accused of being racists. Whitta added, “Opposed by a multi-cultural group led by brave women.”

Donald Trump claims he won the popular vote after all

The political commentariat is all ablaze about President Elect #Donald Trump’s latest tweet in which he stated, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." The tweet comes on the heels of claims on some of the right of widespread voter fraud taking place during the recent election, especially in California. Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the popular vote by about 2.2 million people. Indeed some have suggested that the president-elect lacks a mandate because of this fact.

Forget the moon and Mars, scientists say let's colonize Titan

Most dreams of human colonization of #Space involve the moon or Mars. But, in a recent article in Scientific America, Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix, authors of a new book entitled “Beyond Earth, Our Path to a New Home in the Planets,” do a little outside the box thinking and hit upon Titan, a moon of Saturn, as the first home of humanity in outer space.

Why Green Party candidate Jill Stein refuses to go away

Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate whose performance in the recent presidential election resulted in a dismal showing, is refusing to remove herself from public attention. First, she was one of the addled people ranging from Jesse Jackson to the prime minister of Canada who marked the passing of Cuba’s tyrant Fidel Castro with inappropriate praise. “Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire. Presente!” Then there is her initiative to force a recount of votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania states that Donald Trump won which placed him over the top. The Hillary Clinton campaign has joined in that effort.

Team Trump wants Mitt Romney to grovel for the job of secretary of state

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is still on the short list for #Donald Trump’s secretary of state. He has a lot of qualifications, most important being that of an elder statesman with a lot of respect around the world. However, Romney was also one of Trump’s most fervent enemies during the Republican primaries, though he choose not to run himself in 2016. Team Trump would therefore like to see him grovel for the job, apologizing for all of the mean things he said. The problem is that even after that Romney would by no means be assured of the job.

At long last Fidel Castro is dead

If the death of any human being came decades too late but still offered hope for a better life for millions of people, Fidel Castro’s much-belated departure from this Earth at the age of 90 is one of those occasions. Castro, who seized power in Cuba from the dictator Batista, established a savage tyranny that repressed the civil rights of its people in pursuit of a communist state. Many Cubans choose to flee to the United States, changing the demographics of South Florida and American #politics in ways that cannot possibly imagined. Two prominent American politicians, Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. #Ted Cruz, the past and maybe future candidates for president of the United States, are children of Cuban refugees.

How did the crew of the International Space Station celebrate Thanksgiving?

With astronauts spending months on board the International Space Station, they often find themselves away from home during the holidays. How did the crew of the ISS spend #Thanksgiving? It turns out that the American crew members took the occasion to share the holiday tradition with their Russian and French crewmates with a feast that included turkey (rehydrated), stuffing, potatoes, green beans, and candied yams. The food was stored in plastic pouches and consumed out of them. The meal was washed down with sweet tea. So that food induced coma could not ensue, the portion sized were strictly consumed.

Is Pentagon Really Making Fake Terrorist Videos?

How online shopping may make Black Friday obsolete

Black Friday is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season during which millions of Americans head to the mall to engage in combat over presents that won’t be given for another month, suggesting that people really don’t need to engage in fisticuffs over the latest smartphone or video game console. Business Insider reports that more and more shoppers have decided to eschew the annual holiday shopping wars for online ordering.

Why Black Friday matters to political protestors

#Black Friday is so-called because it is the day most retailers move from being in the red to being in the black as the holiday shopping season kicks off. It is also the day when millions of Americans, having given thanks for what they have, engage in unarmed combat to get more. Finally, and this seems to be the start of an annoying tradition, the day of frenzied shopping is serving as the occasion for Black Lives Matter to become annoying in pursuit of its cause.

How the sailors of the USS Eisenhower spent their Thanksgiving

For most people, the only danger to come on #Thanksgiving will be the risk of heart burn brought on by too muck turkey and stuffing and the millennial home from college with a basket for of resentment over the election of Donald Trump. But, as Fox News reminds us, some of the sailors on the USS Eisenhower, now on station in the Middle East, will mix their turkey and dressing with launching air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Currently as motley coalition that includes the Iraqi Army, Kurdish fighters, and American special ops troops are conducting operations against that special man-made hell on Earth. The United States Navy and Air Force are dropping precision bombs on ISIS fighters in support of said operations. The long war on terror does not stop simply because it is a holiday.

Liberal group offers a hotline for Thanksgiving political arguments

#Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time when you gather with family to stuff yourself silly with Turkey and then pass out on the couch watching football. It is also meant to be a time of giving thanks for all the good fortune that has occurred in the previous year, as did our pilgrim fathers did in days of yore. But 2016 is no ordinary year. A lot of people, because of the election, do not think they have anything to be thankful for and are keen to inflict their disquiet on their relatives over Thanksgiving table. According to the Washington Post, something called Showing Up for Racial Justice has provided a hotline for the vexed millennial or other progressive when confronted by a conservative relative. Mainly, when Uncle John or Granny Sally is unresponsive to appeals to their sense of shame for having voted for Donald Trump, the hotline will provide talking points on a variety of subjects.

WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving

Rush Limbaugh's 'Rush Revere' books banned in Marshall, Wisconsin schools

Attempts to ban books in a country that prides itself on freedom of expression is always a sad spectacle, harkening as it does to Nazi era #Book burning. Add to the list of books too dangerous to be allowed by authors such as Mark Twain and J.K. Rowling is the “Rush Revere” series by radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh. School officials in Marshall, Wisconsin have told a six-year-old boy in no uncertain terms that he could not bring any of his “Rush Revere” books to school because they contain “inappropriate material.”

Update: Marshall, Wisconsin School District denies the 'Rush Revere' book incident ever took place