I’m listening to Neil Cavuto let Deepak Chopra make an ass of himself on Fox News right now, about how New Orleans is our fault, from global warming, etc.
Misleading Headline
If you only read the head on this story, you’d think that Neil Armstrong is claiming that a Mars mission is easier than a lunar one. But he’s not comparing a future lunar mission to a future Mars mission–he’s comparing a future Mars mission to Apollo. Based on the headline, though, it’s not at all clear that the reporter understands that.
[Update at 2:50 PM PDT]
It occurs to me that I’m too hasty to blame the reporter. Headlines are usually the copy editor’s responsibility.
NASA And Katrina
Jeff Foust has a preliminary damage assessment of the hurricane and its aftermath on the space agency’s near- and far-term future.
It’s Not Just Oil For Food Any More
The corruption at the UN is even more wide spread than most imagined (though I’m not surprised at all):
Procurement and budgeting corruption may escape Volcker’s scrutiny, but they are central to the mandate of Annan.
This scandal touches on almost everything the secretary-general is supposed to control. It is by way of procurement contracts, for goods and services ranging from cappuccino and paper clips at U.N. headquarters, to air freight services and food rations for peacekeeping troops worldwide, that the United Nations spends the billions contributed every year by member states
It’s Not Just Oil For Food Any More
The corruption at the UN is even more wide spread than most imagined (though I’m not surprised at all):
Procurement and budgeting corruption may escape Volcker’s scrutiny, but they are central to the mandate of Annan.
This scandal touches on almost everything the secretary-general is supposed to control. It is by way of procurement contracts, for goods and services ranging from cappuccino and paper clips at U.N. headquarters, to air freight services and food rations for peacekeeping troops worldwide, that the United Nations spends the billions contributed every year by member states
It’s Not Just Oil For Food Any More
The corruption at the UN is even more wide spread than most imagined (though I’m not surprised at all):
Procurement and budgeting corruption may escape Volcker’s scrutiny, but they are central to the mandate of Annan.
This scandal touches on almost everything the secretary-general is supposed to control. It is by way of procurement contracts, for goods and services ranging from cappuccino and paper clips at U.N. headquarters, to air freight services and food rations for peacekeeping troops worldwide, that the United Nations spends the billions contributed every year by member states
So Long, Little Buddy
Bob Denver has died. I actually liked him a lot more as Maynard G. Krebs, though.
Cut The Pork
Tim Cavanaugh knows where to find the money to rebuild southeast Louisiana:
Nobody, however, made out on the highway bill quite like the state of Alaska and its ravenous political class. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, bragged to his constituents that the transportation bill (which Young loves so much he named it after his wife) was “stuffed like a turkey” with handouts for his state, and he was not exaggerating. The $721 million in tundra spending includes: a $2 23 million “bridge to “nowhere,” connecting the 8,900-person town of Ketchikan to an airport on Gravina Island, whose population is 50; a $200 million bridge connecting Anchorage to a rural port so insignificant even the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce tried to block the project; and $15 million in seed money for a 68-mile, $284 million access road to Juneau. (This last one is opposed by not only the Environmental Protection Agency but a majority of the area’s residents.)
New And Improved
Clark Lindsey was usefully busy over the weekend. He has moved and renamed RLV News. It’s also now a full-blown blog, with permalinks. Last, but not least, he has several interesting new items up on it.
The Past Ain’t What It Used To Be
Another childhood myth demolished. Dinosaurs had feathers. This lends even more credence to the theory that they still walk (or, rather, for the most part, fly) among us. But unlike the case that would be if their ancestors still lived, we’re above them in the food chain.
[Via Alan Boyle]