Thursday miscellanea #37

Well, judging from the (lack of) headlines, the pandemic must be over.  Everybody go back to picking your nose, licking doorknobs, and whatever else you were doing before the world panicked over 0.000001% of its population getting the flu. So the infamous detainee abuse photos will not be released after all—and yet another piece of … Read more

Let’s catch us a space telescope

Atlantis will retrieve the Hubble Space Telescope today to attempt a series of repairs that were never intended to be performed in orbit.  We’re talking fasteners, circuit boards, wiring harnesses, that kind of thing—stuff that’s a lot less complicated in a dedicated assembly facility on Earth than it is 350 miles above it. That orbit … Read more

A tale of two jokes

Golf announcer David Feherty apologized this weekend for a column in which he joked that U.S. troops returning from combat might wish to shoot Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Conversely, comedian Wanda Sykes garnered guffaws at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by comparing Rush Limbaugh to Osama bin Laden and suggesting that he was the … Read more

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