RIP. He will be missed.
Little-known fact: He was a big fan of space. He was on the board of The Space Foundation. He never used email, but I sent some stuff to him once via his wife, and he wrote a nice letter thanking me.
[Update late afternoon]
John Podhoretz remembers him.
[Update Wednesday morning]
This kind of thing is why he was a national treasure.
[Monday update]
Matt Labash remembers him, as does Jonathan Last.
[Bumped]
Other than a Windjammer Barefoot Cruise on a schooner in the late 90s (the ship went down in Hurricane Mitch a month afterward), I’ve never been on one, and have never felt a strong desire to do so. This tale doesn’t inspire me.
I’m supposedly quoted in this piece (or at least I gave Jim some suggestions), but unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall.
As a long-suffering Lions fan, this was the first time I had a team I could cheer on in the game. Apparently a lot of other Lions fans felt the same way.
Detroit has wasted a lot of talent over the years. It was nice to see Matt Stafford finally achieve his well-deserved potential.
Learning the lessons from them.
I wouldn’t care if there was never another Olympics.
Fact checking what sounds like a monumentally dumb flick.
That is the question at this Oxford debate this evening (in a couple hours, sorry about the short notice).
[Update toward the end of the debate]
As I’ve noted in the past, debates like this are pointless, because they are a false choice based on a false premise. We don’t have to choose between populating Mars and saving the planet; we have abundant resources for both. The false premise is that this is going to be a collective decision whose outcome will be determined by an Oxford debate. People who go to Mars will be doing so with their own money, so people on Earth who oppose it are going to have to make it illegal to prevent it. There is a word for people like that: jailers.