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Good Tuesday morning

Good Tuesday morning

| January 26, 2011 | Reply

Yeah, I’m back blogging, a bit at a time. The San Diego City Council, having passed one of those lame anti-Walmart superstore ordinances, is now having to backtrack after Walmart managed to get over 50,000 petition signatures in less that three weeks to put the ordinance to an actual public vote: The ordinance approved in […]

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Pearl Harbor, redux

Pearl Harbor, redux

| December 7, 2010 | Reply

I could do without the music and intense narration, but I post this in memory of my late father, John A. Webster, who was there at Pearl Harbor as a 17-year-old seaman first class aboard the USS San Francisco.  If you click through on the video to YouTube, there are additional segments. Hat tip to […]

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Time for a new approach to space

Time for a new approach to space

| November 24, 2010 | Reply

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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A more traditional music video

A more traditional music video

| November 23, 2010 | Reply

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

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The strangest, most wonderful music video ever

The strangest, most wonderful music video ever

| November 18, 2010 | Reply

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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TSA update: words of wisdom from Jerry Pournelle

TSA update: words of wisdom from Jerry Pournelle

| November 18, 2010 | Reply

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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I guess we now know who runs the Democratic Party

I guess we now know who runs the Democratic Party

| November 17, 2010 | Reply

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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TSA update: the NMA weighs in

TSA update: the NMA weighs in

| November 17, 2010 | Reply

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

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TSA update: the protest songs have begun

TSA update: the protest songs have begun

| November 16, 2010 | 1 Reply

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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Avoiding Japan’s mistakes

Avoiding Japan’s mistakes

| November 16, 2010 | Reply

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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