Clearing the Browser Tabs – End of a Vision Thursday Edition
Forty-two years ago Tuesday, a brave American named Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Today, most likely by the time you read this, we will no longer have a manned spaceflight program once the Shuttle Atlantis lands after a mundane delivery and trash-hauling run to low Earth orbit. Perhaps our elected officials will listen to Rand Simberg and put aside costly and underachieving government programs and let the visionaries and entrepreneurs get us to the Moon, Mars, and points beyond.
In other news, the recall elections in Wisconsin are heating up and, thus far, the same groups that poured money and people into the state during the budget battle have largely been AWOL. The left’s groups, however, have shown up with truckloads of cash. Whether we like it or not, money and boots on the ground win elections and the left is winning right now. There is still time, though, if some folks turn their focus away from an election that’s more than a year away to one that’s going to happen very soon.
And now, links!
- If you’re considering an upgrade to Apple’s new OSX Lion, here are three good reviews to help you decide: Stephen Green, ReadWriteWeb, and Ars Technica (via Techmeme).
- We can all thank Bruce McQuain for warning us off yet another act of Baby Boomer navel gazing on Vietnam.
- Who’s afraid of a balanced budget? You get three guesses and you won’t need the last two. Those same people are also afraid that if we return to a government the size of the one we had in 2007, old people will be consumed by a zombie apocalypse or something.
- This is good news: Most of us don’t think we’re as busy as the rest of us think we all are.
- I’m no professional journalist, but I do know that it’s always wise to do a little homework about my guests before I have them on.
- If you don’t get the Texas Trendy Chick podcast, let me recommend that you start. Ashley is brilliant and her podcast gets better every week.
- Here’s a great educational time-waster for you: Newly-released color pictures of London during the Blitz.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Let’s Get Back to Wisconsin Thursday Edition
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lame Duck Sunday Edition
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Bleary-Eyed Hockey Fan Thursday Edition
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