bfwebster on November 24th, 2010

As I’ve posted here before, I grew up with the Space Age and worked at NASA just on the Space Shuttle flight simulators just prior to the first Shuttle launch. I desperately want to see humans back into space — beyond LEO (low Earth orbit) — on a permanent basis. But I also agree with [...]

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bfwebster on November 23rd, 2010

…though it’s sort of funny to think of flash mobs singing in mall food courts as “more traditional”.

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bfwebster on November 18th, 2010

No, I don’t know what it means. But I keep watching it, over and over. “I feel strangely hypnotized.” Hat tip to Ace of Spades. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on November 18th, 2010

Jerry weighs in on the TSA kerfuffle: I have never thought TSA did much for security compared to its enormous costs. I knew when it was instituted that it would be arrogant, intrusive, inefficient, and eternal. What other kind of people would take TSA jobs? There is a rule in science fiction fandom among those [...]

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bfwebster on November 17th, 2010

Courtesy of the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president. The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side [...]

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bfwebster on November 17th, 2010

You must have known that our favorite Taiwanese news animators would chime in quickly. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

For those wondering, here’s some information on the singer’s reference to “2257″. Hat tip to Paul Chesser over at the American Spectator blog.

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

Robert Samuelson is, in my opinion, one of the most level-headed and independent business/economics journalists around. I don’t always agree with him — but when I don’t, I strongly consider that I may be wrong. His latest piece can probably be read as another shot across the bow of the stimulus efforts coming from the Fed [...]

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

From Instapundit comes a link to this article by a professional college paper writer: I live well on the desperation, misery, and incompetence that your educational system has created. Granted, as a writer, I could earn more; certainly there are ways to earn less. But I never struggle to find work. And as my peers [...]

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bfwebster on November 15th, 2010

[Instalanche™ in progress; thanks to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit for the link!] It’s pretty hard to read this as anything but pure vindictiveness and intimidation on the part of the Transportation Security Agency: The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, 31, the Oceanside man who was ejected from the San Diego International [...]

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