It’s unlikely any community anywhere has a more positive impression of the space shuttle program than the Huntsville area. Marshall Space Flight Center is here, as is the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Spaceflight is in the water. Indeed, I work in an old NASA building, and it’s certain some giants of the program have … Read more
I couldn’t care less about the Olympics. I can’t remember a time when that wasn’t so. Hell, they played soccer 90 miles south of my house in the ’96 Olympics, and I couldn’t be bothered even then. I’m pretty sure the vaunted Games are never coming to Huntsville, so that was almost certainly the best … Read more
OK everyone, you might sit down here. I’m about to praise the federal government. Really. Frequently I need help on international news. I’m pretty good at world geography and can give you a bullet or two on most anywhere, but often I wish I knew more about somewhere when I read a news story, so … Read more