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Wired has a great
collection of Apollo 11 anniversary links.
I'm repeating myself from a couple years ago, but still like what Ray Bradbury had to say back then:
"Now look. Everyone shut up. You don't know a damned thing about what's going on here tonight, and that's why people like myself are needed in the world. I want to tell you what in hell it means. This is the greatest night you will ever know!
Only 999,960 years to go to find out if Ray was right."There are two nights the Western world will look back upon a million years from tonight. A million years! I'm not talking about a hundred or a thousand years. I'm talking about a million years from tonight.
"The birth of Christ probably is a very important date that changed the world in many ways for the better and, in some ways, for not very much good at all.
"But the second most important date is this night that we're going through right now. Because it's the night when we become immortal-when we begin the steps that will enable us to live forever. Now, if you don't know this, you don't know anything about space."
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William Kristol looks
at a Newsweek essay by Teddy Kennedy and Robert Shrum on
health care "reform" and detects policy prescriptions that could be
characterized as "rationing". From their godlike perch, Shrum and
Kennedy detect "unnecessary" procedures that could easily be abolished
by easy-peasy new regulations and payment schedules.
Riiiiight. Sure they could.
But, as Kristol notes, that alleged totally-sensible reform could happen with Medicare right now, without the the whole "universal coverage" thing. If it's such a great idea, why don't they do that first?
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Drudge is all over the bizarre "stimulus" spending
data posted at
recovery.gov
. My "favorite" so far: $1,444,100 to "REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112" at Dyess AFB just outside Abilene, TX.That's a mighty fine door. (To be fair, it's probably a hangar door. But still… you feeling stimulated yet?
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Dave Barry remembers
his friend Frank McCourt. Funny and touching; read the whole thing.
Jul
20
2009
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2009-07-20