White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries. “That was not his task and that’s not the task of NASA,” Gibbs said. (Bolden has made this claim … Read more
I spent just over 13 years on Usenet, and it was a good time. Learned a lot. Laughed a lot. Most germanely to what I want to talk about in this post, my skin got really, really thick. It’s almost impossible to genuinely offend me online. When you’re a veteran of multiple month-long flame wars, … Read more
The White House charm offensive continues. Joe Biden was recently in Kopp’s Frozen Custard in Glendale, Wisconsin, first mistakenly asking for ice cream. (No word on whether he requested a “big fucking ice cream.”) After getting his custard, he said “What do we owe you?” The manager replied “Don’t worry; it’s on us. Lower our … Read more