The Paper Formerly Known As The Paper Of Record is going to miss its quarterly profit estimates.

James Lileks beats up an oppressed woman. More than worth the price of admission.

Someone of whom I’ve never heard named Lance Bass from some band named Nsync (boy, am I totally unhip or what? And proud of it, too…) is negotiating for a trip to space.

This is great news. It will start to make space tourism something that more and more people in the entertainment world start to think about seriously. And they have money. We want to make this the next Hollywood fad.

Also, as a result we’re starting to approach the tipping point at which demand for seats will exceed Russian supply. This will help provide needed funding for companies like Mircorp, and get investors to start taking this market seriously.

As more investment is made in the system by entities with a true interest in reducing costs, launch costs will finally start coming down from their current stratospheric levels. That will also enable the development of dedicated orbital hotels, so no one will have to any longer kowtow to NASA in order to take a space vacation.

Some Jewish settlers wrapped the body of a dead terrorist in pigskin. The terrorists expressed disapproval, but no word on whether or not it will discourage them.

I still think that we should outfit all aircraft with an overhead sprinkler system that disseminates hogs’ blood in an emergency. That might have made them think twice…

I screwed up yesterday (not an unusual occurrence), when I noted that it was the fortieth anniversary of Glenn’s flight. Today is. But I’m sticking to the rest of the story, though some have suggested that it was a little churlish to criticize the Senator on the anniversary of his achievement.

However, it was an achievement, and one of great bravery. Today, Andrew Chaikin has another commemorative article as a follow up to yesterday’s from Leonard David. In it, he describes the hazards of that particular flight, on which all did not go well, and contrasts it with more modern spaceflight in the Shuttle.

In some sense, Glenn’s flight was a mini-version of Apollo XIII, in which we almost lost three astronauts on their way to the Moon. The heat shield of his Mercury capsule came loose, and there was great concern that the capsule (along with him) would not survive the fire of entry after his three orbits. Quick thinking on the ground came up with a potential solution, and it apparently worked, though he might have made it even without the change in procedure–we’ll never know.

Of course, the danger should be put into perspective. As a former Korean combat fighter jockey and Marine test pilot, for whom funerals of comrades were a frequent occurrence, strapping himself into that capsule and riding the column of fire to orbit was probably one of the safest things that he’d done in his career up to that point…

Jackie Mason explains the inexplicable, the Jewish community’s love for Bill Clinton.

Summary: it’s like the Stockholm Syndrome, or the reason that beaten wives go back to wife beaters. Come to think of it, it would explain why blacks think that he’s a greater president than Lincoln.

Jackie Mason explains the inexplicable, the Jewish community’s love for Bill Clinton.

Summary: it’s like the Stockholm Syndrome, or the reason that beaten wives go back to wife beaters. Come to think of it, it would explain why blacks think that he’s a greater president than Lincoln.

Jackie Mason explains the inexplicable, the Jewish community’s love for Bill Clinton.

Summary: it’s like the Stockholm Syndrome, or the reason that beaten wives go back to wife beaters. Come to think of it, it would explain why blacks think that he’s a greater president than Lincoln.

Boy, the poor Brits are really taking it on the chin over the little invading Spain thing. Just check out Andy Borowitz’ take.