Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The willow is too close to the house.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

This fight is for everything.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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  1. 1.

    PeakVT

    Cue Repuke congresscritters grandstanding about tax dollars being used for rap videos, how it’s the biggest scandal since F&F, etc., in 3… 2…

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    Origuy

    Wasn’t actually done by NASA, unfortunately.

    I just got off the phone with Zachary Cohn, a member of the newly formed Satire team behind the parody video.
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    Cohn has worked with humor video channel LaughPong, which has offered up humorous takes on politics, video games and tech policy. By day, Cohn works for the nonprofit Startup Weekend. The team at Satire is mostly comprised of friends, family and friends of friends. Production team roles are flexible, with members of the team learning new skills and applying them with each new video. Videos from the new channel will, says Cohn, arrive weekly.
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    The team has yet to hear feedback from NASA, although a member of the cast and production team, Anne Ketola, is a former NASA employee. The badges the team wears on their shirts, says Cohn, are actual NASA mission badges.

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    PurpleGirl

    @Origuy: Apparently NASA really likes it and has it posted now on their own YouTube channel. (According to a tweet at the WaPo site.)

  9. 9.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Nothing like a space agency with a sense of humor. You gotta think there’s a bunch of geeks over at SpaceX furiously chewing pencils trying to figure out how to top that. And ESA–I’m lookin’ at you too!

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    PurpleGirl

    Years ago I was at a Tropicon (science fiction convention hosted by South Florida Science Fiction Society). I was in a party room talking to some other attendees who happened to work at NASA. We were talking about fun experiments with food — you know, stuff like what happens to a York peppermint patty when it’s microwaved. Anyway I told them about microwaving grapes and seeing them fly around the interior of the microwave like balloons. One guy said He’d never thought of trying grapes but it sounded like fun. (A little messy, though.)

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    sb

    @Origuy: Aw, that sucks. I mean, the vid was great but thinking it was made by NASA employees made my day. Now? Well, it made my hour.

  12. 12.

    Susan Kitchens

    That video is teh awesome. I’m hella biased: My S.O. works for JPL and was part of the team that developed the radar (aka TDS — terminal descent sensor– when you watch vids of the landing). Can you say nervous pre- and during landing? You betcha. He and his colleagues are very relieved that it worked. (I watched the landing at one of the two off-lab events put on by JPL for its employees and their families)

    I attended NASA’s first evar tweetup (it was at JPL, natch), and a subsequent one last June, where we got to visit Curiosity while she was still a work in progress not long before she got shipped to the launch site.

    JPL has been killin’ it on the social media. Veronica McGregor’s tweeting on behalf of the spacecraft Mars Phoenix was all kinds of awesome, and she and her social media team have continued to kill it big time. Setting that kinda tone helps make an atmosphere that begets social media wins like this video. (Yes, yes, wearing a mohawk helps, too)

    I hope — sincerely hope — that both mission success and the reaction with videos like this results in an increase in funding for planetary science. Most recent budget: drastic cuts.

    There’s traditionally been an intra-agency funding fight between manned missions and unmanned missions. The big rover wins on Mars this last decade? Unmanned missions. But the NASA administrator is an astronaut, and his statements re: JPL’s successes are couched in bias that unmanned/robotic space stuff is a step-sibling to manned space missions and always will be.

  13. 13.

    RP

    So Ryan says that we need to restore American greatness, but I see an America that

    – Is doing a lot better than Europe economically

    – Got rid of Bin Laden

    – Kicked a** in the olympics

    – Just took a big step towards universal health care

    – Is still an incredible engine for innovation and creativity, and

    – Landed a rover on Mars

    I know I sound a little jingoistic, but FU Ryan.

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    Comrade Mary

    Sexy And I Know It is supposed to be one of those awful, kids-these-days-I’ll-tell-ya songs that, at best, gets to be called a guilty pleasure, but I love it to death in an absolutely unironic fashion. These non-NASA parodists did a very good thing.

    But you guys did know that the JPL team did do an AMA (Ask Me Anything at Reddit, right? Mohawk Guy and Hippie NASA Guy were there, as well as many others. Pic.

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    northquirk

    That is pretty sweet. I’m just sad that I didn’t see them filming it (most of the shots are in downtown Seattle @ Westlake & Belltown very near my home).

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