NASA Lunar Science Institute Reviewed

September 7th, 2010

Asteroids Zip Between Earth-Moon Today

September 7th, 2010

Fearless Felix’s 23-Mile Jump Coming Soon!

September 7th, 2010

Obama Doubles-Down With Your Money Again

September 7th, 2010

On missing the point

September 7th, 2010

I hate it when people argue like this:

But it brings to mind a question my pal Greg over at Rhymes With Right raised a while ago: If you can burn a flag, why can’t you burn a Qu’ran?

The answer of course is that you can.

It’s revealing that the Left is absolutely bat bonkers about the Qu’ran barbecue but has always been totally supportive of burning the American flag as a matter of Constitutionally mandated free speech if nothing else. Quoted in “Emotional Puberty and Wingnuttia”

See what he did there? He took one position: (“hey, let’s go to a flag burning party!”) and confused it with another issue entirely (“is there a legal right to burn the flag?”). I don’t have any friends on the left who have burned a flag. People who burn things in protest are jerks. This guy who wants to burn a lot of Qu’rans? He’s publicizing being a jerk.

But that’s his right.

Recognizing that someone has a right to be a jerk is an entirely different thing from supporting the actions of jerks. This particular jerk seems to have missed that subtlety.

Your Current Local Weather Situation Report for 9/7/2010 8:23:21 AM

September 7th, 2010

Roanoke Times Lashes Out at Rick Boucher

September 7th, 2010

A Headline You’ll Never See In This Country

September 7th, 2010

As Sure As The Rain

September 7th, 2010

Somebody Needs To Get a Message To Petraeus

September 7th, 2010

Stuck on Stupid

September 7th, 2010

Dribble

September 7th, 2010

Friday Night Fish Fry 2010-09-07 02:10:56

September 6th, 2010

The Future: inflatable space habitats

September 6th, 2010

Tumlinson: Holistic Living on Space Frontier

September 6th, 2010

Rep. Bart Gordon responds to critics of House NASA bill; Blames Administration

September 6th, 2010

Mars Life Detected Nearly 35 Years Ago?

September 6th, 2010

Memory Lane: Old computer ads

September 6th, 2010

This site has collected a set of old computer ads from the late seventies and early eighties. Some of the goodies include:

  • A 20 Mhz 80386 PC that sells for a low, low, low $8,499.
  • A modem the size of a toaster oven.
  • A 15 meg (yes, meg, not gig) hard drive for $2,495 and a 10 meg hard drive for $3,495.
  • An ad for the venerable Heathkit H8 with 4K of memory; a real bargain for $1244.50!
  • Good for a chuckle, and an indication of how far the computer business has come in 25 years. The $199 iPod Touch is more powerful than the multi-million dollar mainframes of the seventies.

Roanoke Times Hiding From The Environmental Throwdown

September 6th, 2010

Enjoying some mountain weather

September 6th, 2010