George Deutsch has barely left NASA for a month and the God-hating humanists have already started with their nonsense again. Who should Bush nominate to replace Deutsch and put the fear of god back into Hansen and his secularist cabal? I propose Pat Robertson because he’s always looking up so he’ll sort of fit in. Share your candidates in the comments.
Chat about the birth, expansion and eventual cataclysmic collapse of our universe, and other stuff.
Oh yeah, go Pitt.
demimondian
In another example of how well the American media functions, the fourth headline on the front page on MSNBC currently points to a story about the Pitt/Jolie wedding.
This is more important than the NCAA tourament how?
srv
I predict the Seattle Discovery Institute will be called in as a review board for all NASA publications.
Perhaps if NASA prayed a little harder, we could get the Shuttle launched again?
Faith-based Rocket Science, coming to a space program near you.
Bruce in Alta California
We could always sell the entire operation to China. They have a pant load of US dollars and could utilize the expertise to further their own space program.
Chefrad
And why not? Pat Robertson has been asstral projecting for years.
Richard 23
Franklin Graham! Because science needs new blood.
DougJ
I hear scs is looking for work.
demimondian
DougJ! I haven’t read your insightful commentary in days!
Tell me, do you think scs is GOP4Me?
DougJ
No, scs scares me, while GOP4Me is just Darrell on steroids. Or maybe just Darrell with enough integrity not to cut and paste his comments in from elsewhere.
Dennis
I am glad for sites like yours John cole. Someone who supports reality.
Dennis
Richard 23
OT, but a question for DougJ:
I’ve gotten a little bored with rathergate, blogsforbush and scrutator.
Any other recommended unhinged sites that allow comments?
DougJ
Here’s one
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
It’s by far the craziest I’ve seen. You might want to check out redstate.org too.
Protein Wisdom has gotten pretty kooky lately too. I would now rate it slightly more crazy than Scrutator and but slightly less than blogsforbush.
And there’s always Cold Fury.
DougJ
Really, though, in a way I’ve got to give the nod to Protein Wisdom. Jeff Goldstein has got to be the biggest jack ass on any of the internets. He thinks he’s some kind of an intellectual. Check out his bio.
Scrutator, rathergate, cold fury — all those sites are maintained by morons for morons, but Goldstein is the only guy I see right now who really takes it to the next level. Pamela from Atlas Shrugs has her moments and she definitely gets points for the bizarre layout of her blog and for all those cheesecake pictures of her. And for comparing the guy who founded Little Green Footballs to van Gogh. But Goldstein is in a class by himself. He’s got the pomosity of Tom Maguire with the stupidity of Mark Noonan. You just don’t see that combination very often. It’s also possible that he’s kidding us all. If so, I am not worthy to wipe hold the lid of his snark jar.
You know what checking out all these whack job sites has taught me? To respect guys like Don Surber. He may be simplistic and misinformed, but he’s honest and humble.
Richard 23
Thanks, DougJ. I’ve been to most of those places — just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything “good.”
And yeah, Pammy (aka Supergirl *choke*) is something other than else. So the Little Green Snotballs guy cut off his ear? Or what? Ha!
What I find fascinating (like a car wreck) is some good Eliminationist Rhetoric.
Such wonderful prose is hard to find.
DougJ
Wow. That is some seriously whacked out shit.
srv
Oh, yeah. This place is just filled with it. Since DougJ is now slobbering over JeffG, I’m starting to worry if he’s behind PW too now.
DougJ
I do comment a lot at Protein Wisdom these days. It’s weird over there — if you use a dumb enough name, especially one that involves guns or hunting or the like, they’ll never suspect you.
scs
You should really get over this obsession with me. I know I’m hard to forget, but …. geez!
DougJ
I’m two of the commenters in this PW thread.
DougJ
Scs, what you don’t realize is that not only am I most of the commenters on this site, I am also most of the commenters on Protein Wisdom, Blogs For Bush, and JustOneMinute. You really should be over there too.
scs
Just two?
scs
I’m not surprised.
scs
Do you not have a life? You must be even more bored than me.
The Other Steve
I think Protein Wisdom might be a spoof blog.
Pb
DougJ,
Is Jeff Goldstein one of your characters over at Protein Wisdom? ;)
Matt
I dunno–Red State is about the scariest that I’ve been to, if for no other reason than that they ostensibly capture the middle ground of the GOP.
zzyzx
prolifeblogs.com is both scary and useful because you can read the rants that the prolife movement tries to hide, e.g. having an exception for the life of the mother is just a loophole, let’s go after contraception next, etc.
Marc
Goldstein’s bio is impressive. A B.A. from Towson University *and* graduate work (but not a degree?) from the University of Denver? Oh, some summer courses at Cornell — don’t forget those. And then he drew Tippy the Turtle and took some correspondence drawing courses from the Art Institute of Akron.
Also, somehow I get the feeling that the phrase “studied under” means “enrolled in a large class taught by.” If not, all those people are all shitty, shitty teachers.
The irony here is that his top post is one that takes issue with Atrios calling him stupid. Jeff and his acolytes respond to Atrios (an Econ. Ph.D.) with a long string of nuh-uhs!
Brilliantly argued. As always.
capelza
Yeah…Nick Danger…moderate.
The Other Steve
I think you’re right. Based on his bio, Goldstein strikes me as a talentless professional student. I used to have to deal with the type when I worked at the University. If they had any real talent or skill, they’d go get a real job and then they’d completely forget where they went to college and who their profs were.
Like the rest of us.
artpepper
How ’bout them Bradley Braves?
Ekim
Washington Huskies will beat Connecticut Huskies if they can get past Kentucky.
demimondian
By the way, Tim, current cosmological thinking leans towards the Universe continuing to expand indefinitely, with no warmth of the big crunch to look forwards towards.
Gavin M.
What I find fascinating (like a car wreck) is some good Eliminationist Rhetoric.
Such wonderful prose is hard to find.
Well, thanks, but we’ve long since made up with Esmay, and the post was quite Swiftian to begin with. It caused a reaction that embarrassed everyone more than we usually embarrass ourselves and others, which is saying something.
I was wondering why people were going to that page today, and I appended a caveat to the top, but it’s somehow not appearing on the copy that comes up from here.
My vote is for Goldstein, in any case. He’s really flipped the bonkwagon lately.