For no reason that I can think of, the following song has been stuck in my head since I woke up this morning: Still one of the best theme songs, I think. I saw a show on the National Geographic channel a while back that said that a series of Air Force tests on human …
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Open Thread
Millions of people have already packed the national Mall to capacity. I hope that someone remembered to bring a loaf and a fish.
CBS Sunday Morning
For the life of me, I can not remember what the topics are today. I guess it will be like Christmas, but in January. Speaking of, this is a shot of what it looks like outside my place: You can’t see the snow coming down, but it is, and that, my friends, is STEELER WEATHER. …
About That Plane Landing
All the news this morning seems focused on that miraculous plane landing yesterday on the Hudson, and it really is pretty impressive what that pilot pulled off. I will leave it to the oddsmakers to figure out what the chances are of something like that happening with no fatalities, but I would bet they are …
Question
I wonder when will wingnuts will figure out the thematic parallels between Daniel Craig’s new film Defiance and the Greatest Moving Picture Ever Recorded By Man (TM), Red Dawn. When they inevitably do, who will be the first wingnut blogger to paint himself as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis? Whoever guesses Ace of Spades, …
The kindness of strangers Americans
You know, with eight years of torture, unnecessary war, and everything else, it’s easy to forge that, in many ways, Americans about the nicest people on earth: What’s the greatest challenge of traveling on $5 a day? When you travel with that kind of money, you are entirely at the mercy of strangers. Because $5 …
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Edward R. Murrow would be proud
Joe the Plumber on war: “the media should be abolished.” When I was in grad school, a friend of mine talked a lot about the William Shattner version of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”. After all the discussion, I thought there was no way it could surprise me with its awfulness, given my expectations, …