I sure picked a bad time to move back to California.
Category Archives: Humor
So Publish The Damn Iowahawk Book Already
Go sign the petition. The background is that Dave was in negotiations with a publisher, but they decided not to go for it, because they didn’t think it would sell ten thousand copies.
[Friday morning update]
If you go to the petition site, DO NOT DONATE any money, at least with the intent of getting it to Burge, because he won’t get a dime. That’s the petition site’s business model.
[Update mid morning]
Iowahawk has shut down the petition, lest anyone else get fooled.
It’s still a good idea, though. Maybe I should set one up here. I’ve been thinking about doing it for a market test of a space policy book.
Bob Etheridge’s New Career
Iowahawk has the scoop.
You Knew It Was Only A Matter Of Time
First there was TOTUS (which has had nothing to say about the tuchis-kicking remark), and now Barack’s oil spill has its own blog.
[Saturday afternoon update]
Who knew that the president was so talented?
Schadenfreude
I know I’m terrible, but I can’t help taking pleasure in this, even though I agree with him on this issue. Well, they say that goats will eat anything.
Hayek
…versus Hayek. I like them both, actually, but obviously for different reasons.
Birds Of A Feather
Iowahawk has discovered Helen Thomas’ retirement plans.
Crudezilla
King of all spills. And the hero who saves the day:
NARRATOR
This is the teaching laboratory of Baraku Obamasawa, Japan’s greatest living scientist. A world renowned expert with an advanced degree in social engineering from Hokkaido Law School, by the age of 23 he had already written 2 textbooks on the world’s strangest phenomenon — himself. His is a scientist so advanced that he has already earned a Nobel Prize for work he has yet to begin. Today, he is showing students his latest discovery.OBAMASAWA
… now note as I apply a blowtorch to this pile of 10 million yen, it is converted to ash — thereby creating jobs for these two janitors from the Nippon Custodian Union.students applaud wildly
STUDENTS
Domo arigato, sensei! We are very honored to be your students. [giggle] You have given us hope and tingles up our kimonos!
Don’t miss a single exciting minute.
[Update a few minutes later]
Warning: the puns are awful.
Bureaucratic Sabotage
…or how Dilbert won the war. Though actually, credit has to go to the pointy-haired boss.
I think this also explains a lot about why we haven’t made much progress in space.
The Five Stages
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