Space Shuttle Atlantis, which launched four days before Loyabelle was born, landed safely this morning at Cape Canaveral, ending NASA’s 30-year Shuttle program. It was the 135th mission for the fleet, which has covered an astonishing 542million miles and circled Earth 21,150 times. … The five shuttles have carried 355 people from 16 countries – and here were the last… Read more »
To take the edge off my latest rant against GOP debt-ceiling fanaticism — really, this issue gets me angry like nothing in politics since the emergence of Sarah Palin — here’s a post about a different kind of fanatic: video of the Phillie Phanatic getting hit by a foul ball. Ha! (Hat tip: Jim Kelly. Apologies to Marty West. Well,… Read more »
Mitch Daniels, back when he was George W. Bush’s budget director, on Meet the Press, about the debt limit: We’re going to raise it, as a reasonable government must. This is really housekeeping, Tim. This has nothing to say or do with future spending. This simply reflects decisions made in the past, and it ought to be treated as the… Read more »
Thought all the conference change drama had finally hit the back burner for awhile? Think again! According to Sporting News, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are so pissed off at the prospect of Texas’s Longhorn Network airing live high school games of potential recruits, they are threatening to jumping ship to the SEC, a move that would all but sink the… Read more »
