Maybe I could just Google this, but why are Catholics always seeing Mary instead of Jesus? Is she like the Press Secretary or something? Or is she more like Karl Rove?
— Jame Zawinski
Category: History
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Congratulations to Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, China’s second and third astronauts, on their successful launch today.
It is ironic that NASA, after three decades of wasted work on the Shuttle and Station, is returning to the modular, capsule-based approach that worked well the first time around, which the Russians have perfected, and now the Chinese are carefully developing. The Chinese station will be built out of (shock, horror) Shenzhou orbital modules stacked together.
One can only dream of the kind of infrastructure that could have been in place had NASA similarly used spent Shuttle tanks, for instance.
Hope
Liberians are voting today in the first really free election they’ve had ever. Front-runners are Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and George Oppong Weah. I somehow think I favor Harvard over AC Milan, although the former striker has a TV spot narrated by Denzell Washington :-)
All Hail!
Gratuitous Snark
Blogging has been light this past week — wedding prep, a put-out back, and now a flu have cut down on extra-curricular activities.
But in monitoring the developing situation in the Gulf of Mexico, I came across this snarky diptych.
— Gordon, signing off from disaster-free (until the Big One) Vancouver