Memnison Journal

Being a student of American History and Political Science, I’ve noticed something since - oh, 1930.  When some Republicans, the more wingnut sorts, are behind the eight-ball and trying to stir things up, they call the Democrats commies, socialists or commie sympathizers.  And traitors to the realm.
Go back and check out the commentary about FDR, [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

NASA is looking at the problem of maintaining the ISS if the Russians and the USA are having a p!ss!ng match, especially when there won’t be an American option for getting up there from 2010-2015 (at least).  Where’s an X-20 when you need it?
NASA has for years relied to some extent on Russian spacecraft for [...]

At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak.
My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]

As regular readers here may note, I’m a news junkie, and the one news show that I regularly catch is Keith Olbermann’s COUNTDOWN on MSNBC at night.  In the morning, we used to listen to NPR, but the radio has been crapping out on the reception of same, and until I can fix it, and [...]

Looking forward at the 2008 ratrace for President, I’m amazed at the level of you’ve-got-to-be-kidding that I hear from the audience at the level of people running - and how early this stuff is going off towards Serious Running. More after the cut.

Below the cut is a item from Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo that brings it all together; what it comes down to for the election in reality is - as per Reagan’s brilliant summation in 1980 - “are you better off today than four [...]

The other day, I was trying to assemble a set of terms of Bushit Bingo, where you have Bingo cards with different Bush common statements on them, and you pass them out before a speech to see who can Bingo on the terms in the speech.  Bush was trying to get through an hour-long press [...]