‘Timeless,’ NBC’s time travel adventure series, has been canceled

“Timeless,” which finished its first and now the only season on NBC, was one of the more intelligent #Time Travel series to have debuted last fall. The premise was that a mad man was going through time to destroy history as a way to exact revenge against a shadowy conspiracy that had murdered his family. A trio of time travelers went in hot pursuit to try to stop him, while at the same time unraveling a secret that had persisted for centuries and had affected #American History in various ways. Unfortunately, NBC has decided to pass on giving the show a second season. Absent the remote possibility of another network picking up the show, “Timeless” has finished its run..

Trump to arm Syrian Kurds for offensive against ISIS

The Washington Free Beacon reports that the Trump Administration has decided to provide the Kurdish YPG with small arms, including rifles, machine guns, and mortars, along with ammunition, with a view for the rebel force assisting in the taking of Raqqa. Raqqa is the de facto capital of ISIS in Syria, containing currently some 4,000 fighters. The taking of the town is central to American strategy in destroying the terrorist army in Syria. However, the move places the #United States on a collision course with its ally Turkey, which regards the Syrian Kurd force as part of a terrorist group that is trying to create a separate Kurdish nation, partly on Turkish territory.

How Stephen Colbert was flummoxed when his audience cheered Comey’s firing

One of the funniest aspects of the firing of FBI Director James Comey by President Trump is how the left is tying itself in knots to make Comey the victim and Trump the bad guy. This phenomenon is happening after months of demanding Comey’s head for allegedly handing the election to Trump by talking too much about the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Things got so bad that #Stephen Colbert, who has made the monolog of “The Late Show” into a nightly two-minute hate against the president, was tripped up when he had announced the firing that had happened minutes before taping.

Why ‘The Americans’ is as much about child abuse as it is espionage

The most recent episode of “The Americans,” entitled “Darkroom” was proof that the series has become just as much about a peculiar kind of #Child Abuse as it is about mid-1980s Cold War espionage. Paige, the daughter of the two deep cover KGB spies, has been quietly going insane from the stress of keeping the terrible secret that her parents have been keeping since before she was born.

Are you ready for President Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson?

Blame it on Ronald Reagan, who made the leap from radio broadcaster to actor to #Governor Of California to #President of the United States to world historical figure for winning the Cold War. A lot of Hollywood stars reach a point in their careers when they start to mull the possibility of going into politics. Part of the motivation is the “I could better than those clowns in office.” Part of it is a natural ego that comes from being a beloved movie star that many think can be translated into that other performance art, politics. In any case, Dwayne “the #Rock” Johnson is the latest to imagine himself in the Oval Office.

How the anti-GMO and anti-vaccination movements are linked

Alex Berezow at Asch suggested that the anti-#gmo movement and the anti-vaccination movement are one in the same. At the very least the two groups are linked ideologically and are primarily comprised of the same people.

SpaceX conducts ground static test of the Falcon Heavy core

Space News noted that SpaceX recently did s static test fire of the core stage of its #Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, currently scheduled for a test launch late in the summer of 2017. The firing is a crucial step for the rollout of the long awaited and often delayed launch vehicle.

The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper

Iranian satellite program seen as a cover for developing an ICBM

Iran is preparing to launch two satellites into space but, as the Washington Free Beacon notes, the #trump administration is pretty sure that it’s a cover for an ICBM program. The nightmare scenario being mulled by national security experts involves the Iranians launching a nuclear warhead to explode over the central United States. The resulting EMP pulse would send much of North America back to the Middle Ages, killing tens of millions of people by inches as technological civilization is destroyed. This prospect is a gift that Barack Obama gave the country he used to govern thanks to his misbegotten nuclear weapons deal. Team Obama has been beating its collective chest about how the deal allegedly denied Iran a nuclear arsenal. In fact, the deal enabled it.

The real reason President Trump fired James Comey

President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director #James Comey. This was not a case of “I want your resignation on my desk in the morning” but rather Celebrity Apprentice style, “You’re fired!” Comey found out just as he was about to give a speech in California. He had to undergo the added humiliation of heading for the airport as a news helicopter followed him.

Report: Americans are headed on a voyage around the moon in 2019

Parabolic Arc notes that Chris B at NASASpaceFlight.com has tweeted that the decision to go with a crew on the first flight of the Orion-Space Launch System has been made. The Trump administration had requested from NASA an evaluation as to whether the plan is practical. The flight, if Chris is correct, would take place in 2019. Putting astronauts on the first flight of the Orion on top of the heavy lift SLS has a whole host of advantages, tangible and intangible. The gambit also carries with it some serious risks.

Donald Trump regards Elizabeth Warren as the greatest threat for 2020

President #Donald Trump was elected about eight months ago and has been president for less than four months. But. According to the Hill Newspaper, the White House has decided that it is not too early to think about 2020. The Team Trump views Sen. #Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass as their most likely opponent in three years. Warren has lots of popularity with the left wing of the Democratic Party, combining the radical politics of her fellow senator, Bernie Sanders, and the gender identity that Hillary Clinton tried to ride to the Oval Office, as it turns out to no avail.

Why are millennial women really dating older men?

The story that an increasing number of #Millennial Women want to date older #Men was, to say the least, intriguing to this aging baby boomer. Apparently, it all boils down to a remarkable number of millennial men relying on Tinder to pick up women, have sex with them, and then cast them aside like a bottle that their favorite craft beer came in. What it all boils down to is that women, even in the 18 to 35 year old demographic, want to be treated like a lady. They want to be appreciated as a human being, with intelligence and feelings. They don’t want their lives to be one empty hookup after another.

Jimmy Carter reveals himself to be a Berniebro

Former President Jimmy Carter said two remarkable things while at an event with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont at the Carter Center in #Georgia. The first thing was that he voted for Sanders over Clinton, presumably during the primaries. The second point was a claim that if 80 percent of the American people voted the Republicans would be a “distinct minority.” That was a remarkable statement coming out of the mouth of a man who made so many people switch to the Republican Party when he was president, back sometime before the Great Flood.

A remarkable number of couples are breaking up over political differences

Usually, when #couples decide to split up, the problem is infidelity, money, or maybe a lack of communication. However, as the Washington Examiner notes, increasingly some marriages and committed relationships are fracturing because of #political differences, especially over President Donald Trump. The problem seems to be most keenly manifested, not surprisingly, among millennials.

New novel to be an alt history where Hillary Rodham doesn’t marry Bill Clinton

Most people haven’t heard of the novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, whose previous work was a thinly disguised story about former First Lady Laura Bush, albeit with embellishments that included a secret abortion and a lesbian grandmother. Her next book, an #Alternate History story about what would have happened had Hillary Rodham not married Bill Clinton, will likely put Sittenfeld on the map.

Ted Cruz has a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare once and for all

As the Obamacare #Repeal and Replace debate moves to the Senate, the question arises over how much of the House bill should be included if at all. According to the Washington Examiner, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas has a bill that should take care of the matter once and for all, bypassing the three-stage process that the House leadership has been following. Moreover, Cruz believes that his approach will pass under reconciliation, meaning that it doesn’t need Democratic support.

Andy Weir’s next book is called ‘Artemis’ set In a small town on the moon

ome time ago, #Andy Weir, the author of “#The Martian,” the greatest space adventure story of the 21st Century, announced that his next book would be set on the moon and would involve a professional criminal. Nerdist has announced more details of the book. The novel will be called “Artemis” and will come out on November 14, 2017. The movie rights have already been sold and will no doubt, hopefully, sooner rather than later, become a blockbuster film just like Weir’s first book did.

Don’t tear down Confederate monuments says -- Condoleezza Rice

In the wake of Dylann Roof’s massacre of a group of African American church parishioners, a number of state and local governments are falling over themselves to deconfederize its public buildings and monuments. The names of Confederate generals are being removed from schools and are being replaced by those of civil rights figures. Monuments to Confederate figures are being taken down throughout the south, in New Orleans much to the outrage of some of the locals. Now, an unusual celebrity has spoken out against what she views as a sanitizing of American history: former #Secretary of State #Condoleezza Rice.

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom

117 patients died while waiting for care at a single VA hospital in Los Angeles

One of the memes that have developed during the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare is that no matter what the Republicans do, the United States is headed inexorably to a single payer, government-run #Health Care System. Some, like Charles Krauthammer, fear it. Others, like Sen Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, eagerly anticipate it. For those who have not been warned off of the temptation to place out healthcare in the hands of the same people who run the IRS, the Washington Free Beacon reports on an OIG report that 117 patients died while on a waiting list for care at a single #Va Hospital in #Los Angeles in a nine month period.

Bill Clinton & James Patterson writing thriller novel ‘The President is Missing’

According to the Hill Newspaper, former President Bill Clinton and thriller writer James Patterson intend to collaborate on a novel. Plot details are not readily available, but the title, “#The President is Missing,” kind of speaks for itself. A 1967 novel, “The President’s Plane is Missing,” touched on the same concept that the title of the Clinton-Patterson novel suggests. In the previous novel Air Force One crashes, and it is uncertain whether the president was on board since all the bodies are burned, and the story took place before DNA testing. The book had a Cold War plot with an incompetent vice president planning to launch a preemptive strike against China.