I just heard Bridget Quinn on Fox News use the phrase “homicide bomber” rather than “suicide bomber.” I wonder if they have a new style guide, or she did it on her own.
Barbara Finally Gets Her Ride
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe will announce today that Barbara Morgan, the back-up teacher in space to Christa McAuliffe, will finally get to fly.
Dan Goldin viscerally and vociferously opposed civilians in space (except for corrupt Senators), and refused to reinstate the teacher-in-space program (it was suspended after the Challenger accident, in which McAuliffe was killed). Morgan is finally flying because she was formally accepted as a member of the astronaut corps, and has been training for several years. However, I suspect that she’ll still try to get in some teaching during her flight.
Send In The Clones
Virginia Postrel (who still doesn’t have any way to permalink individual posts) has some good thoughts on the cloning debate today.
Honor
For people who agree with Kathy Kinsley’s proposal that the Afghan scientists who hid the radioactive material from Al Qaeda deserve a Peace Prize, there’s now an on-line petition available.
I’ve signed it. (Thanks to Dan Hartung for setting it up)
[Update at 10:45AM PDT]
When I signed early this morning, I was number four. Now there are twenty seven. I know that Kathy and I have both publicized it, but don’t know if anyone else has picked it up on their blogs yet. We’ll know that Instantman has when it starts jumping by orders of magnitude. Did all those signatures come from my and Kathy’s site?
[1:11PM PDT Update]
Now there are thirty seven signatures, and I see that Bill Quick has linked to it.
Let’s see how fast we can spread this meme.
Remembrance And Celebration
As I discussed last week, today is the forty-first anniversary of the first manned spaceflight, and the twenty-first anniversary of the first Shuttle flight. The Yuri’s Night celebrations will occur all over the world today. They’ll be doing a continuous webcast, and the number of worldwide (and offworld) parties is now up to a hundred and twenty.
Hit ‘Em Again, Harder…Harder
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
Hit ‘Em Again, Harder…Harder
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
Hit ‘Em Again, Harder…Harder
As if he hadn’t rendered Mr. Antiwarblogger sufficiently subterranean yesterday, Lileks pounds him a few feet deeper. The rest of the bleat is hilarious as well.
Well, Duhhhh…
Not there was much doubt, but Israel has provided the U.S. government with evidence of Arafat’s complicity in the Israeli terror attacks.
More Irony
The growing sense of new pogroms against Jews worldwide may spur additional emigration to Israel, further confounding Palestinian extremists’ goals. Some may conclude that Israel, buttressed by a growing Jewish population willing and able to defend itself, may be the safest place…