Remember the old Monty Python routine about the Society for Putting Things On Top of Other Things?
Well, here’s a web site where people put things on top of cats.
Contrast And Compare
I don’t have the stomach to wade through Democratic Underground, or Kos, but I can’t imagine that they ever have as funny a thread as this one at Free Republic.
A Long Way To Go
Melanie Phillips has a disturbing letter from a British Muslim. As she says:
Truth and lies are at the very heart of this terrible problem facing us all. The sense of grievance and injustice to which this reader refers is indeed very real. But it is the grievance of a people who turn their own misdeeds into their own victimology, thus making rational discourse all but impossible. The tragedy is that this reader and I undoubtedly have much in common
OK Spaceport OK in 2005
I just got a call from Bill Khourie (pronounced ‘curry’), Director of OSIDA who let me know that they are putting their finishing touches on Oklahoma’s spaceport application with FAA AST and environmental impact statement and are targetting December 2005 for approval for horizontal takeoff horizontal landing vehicles. He said they would be delighted to be approached by the vertical crowd and would be pleased to welcome them assuming AST says OK.
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Wednesday, 15:30 CDT: One of the vertical crowd emailed me and said that they already approached OSIDA some time ago and “would be pleased” might not be enough to get a new AST spaceport application filed.
Breathtaking Chutzpah
Byron York has an exit interview with Brad Smith of the FEC. I found this bit amazing (if true, though I’ve no reason to disbelieve it):
Don’t Know Much About History
As an alumnus of the University of Michigan, I’m embarrassed that Juan Cole is a tenured professor there, and apparently a respected one.
Don’t Know Much About History
As an alumnus of the University of Michigan, I’m embarrassed that Juan Cole is a tenured professor there, and apparently a respected one.
Don’t Know Much About History
As an alumnus of the University of Michigan, I’m embarrassed that Juan Cole is a tenured professor there, and apparently a respected one.
Don’t Know Much About Biology
In discussing AIDS drug prices, Derek Lowe notes that:
I’ve known some pretty good Brazilian scientists, but the country isn’t up to being able to discover and develop its own new ones. (Very few countries are; you can count them on your fingers.)
I’d never thought about this, but I imagine it’s true. There’s a reason that so many countries send students to the US (and the UK, and few other places) for their education. I recall a chapter in one of Feynman’s autobiographies, in which he described the state of physics education in Brazilian universities. It was basically rote memorization, with no apparent comprehension of the actual meaning or applicability of the formulas. It would be interesting (and sad) if that remains the case.
Don’t Know Much About Biology
In discussing AIDS drug prices, Derek Lowe notes that:
I’ve known some pretty good Brazilian scientists, but the country isn’t up to being able to discover and develop its own new ones. (Very few countries are; you can count them on your fingers.)
I’d never thought about this, but I imagine it’s true. There’s a reason that so many countries send students to the US (and the UK, and few other places) for their education. I recall a chapter in one of Feynman’s autobiographies, in which he described the state of physics education in Brazilian universities. It was basically rote memorization, with no apparent comprehension of the actual meaning or applicability of the formulas. It would be interesting (and sad) if that remains the case.