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This is the view from the solid rocket booster on the Space Shuttle as it’s launched into orbit, and then the ride back to earth (with audio). The real money shot for me is at around the two minute mark when the boosters separate from the shuttle. Share on Facebook Johann Sebastian Bach… not just good for your ears and good for your soul… good for you period. From Miller-McCune: A newly published study from Mexico reports repeated listening to certain classical works — including one by Mozart — helps ease the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression. “Music offers a simple and elegant way to [...] (2nd Anniversary re-print. Original posted 12/01/2009) I hope I don’t offend anyone; this is a sincere question and I am very interested in learning what y’all (you’se guys for Rich and Stosh, you’ins for Eric) have to say. I haven’t looked at the numbers but there is no question our nation graduates way, way, way too [...] On this day in 2008 some ones and zeros were uploaded to a vacant outpost on the world wide web and thus, rather inauspiciously, www.threedonia.com was born! As with most offspring, threedonia has developed quite differently than Floyd, Chuck and I foresaw, gazing through the celebratory cigar smoke on that storied day. We began as [...] I taught a course called “Congress and the Presidency” this summer and I’m polishing off the finals for that course as I begin the Fall semester tomorrow. Anyway… I asked the class, as part of a larger question: Lasty, on which, if any, President did you either change your opinion from this class or merely [...] The Restoring America rally is going on as I type – or maybe it’s just now over. Patriotism — hell even mere pride of place — has become passe to many Americans… something of which we are sometimes made to feel ashamed or reticent to talk about. To hell with that. I [...] This one is on us America — and quite frankly you can thank us too World. I haven’t talked to Rufus but since I know he is independently upper middle class he won’t mind if we forgo our usual fee. We have solved America’s problems in our Friday Open Thread. Who knew [...] On the one hand — thank God MTV had the wisdom to put SRV on Unplugged and document this genius. On the other hand… 3 friggin’ songs? Half of a 30 minutes show? What the heck MTV? I saw him in Abilene, Texas a few months before he died — awesome… [...] Some light dawns on self-proclaimed liberal and atheist Susan Jaboby vis a vis multiculturalism and many of her fellow travelers on the Left. From Big Questions Online: The latest example of the Left’s blind spot on this issue is the antagonism of so many liberal reviewers toward Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent memoir, Nomad. The Somali-born [...] Joseph Montgolfier was born this day in 1740… 43 years before he had a really good washing… Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Here’s a review of the above book from The New Republic. It looks like a great read. His book is also a treatise on male folk custom. Bare-knuckle championship fights were highly ritualized events. Challenges were published in the newspapers—“I, John C. Heenan, of the City of West Troy, United States of America, hereby…”—and formal [...] With one more August show to go, an easy way to get caught up on the return of Radio Free Threedonia. Moving backwards … 8/22 — Author Kender MacGowan and a mini-memorial to The Call’s Michael Been, including great stories from Been friend and former collaborator Eli Braden 8/15 — Jeff Radice (No No: A Dockumentary), Christian [...] I ran across this piece last night by P.J. O’Rourke on Radio Free Europe, free speech and liberty in the journal World Affairs. In a free society all people must be communicated to, and we must be able to get communication from them in return. People must be able to talk back. People must be able [...] Did Germany outstrip England’s growth — reaching industrial parity in 1900 because it didn’t have copyright laws? This article from Speigel online makes that claim. The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans [...] I’m prepping Fall Courses and wrapping up Summer ones. These are a couple of the books I’ll be assigning this Fall. For a grad seminar called Psychology, Law and Public Policy In my Disability Law course: The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (History of Disability) And as a supplemental in my Humanities course (which I love to teach [...] In my Congress and the Presidency course tomorrow night… I’m slapping them upside the head with this. Take that muddle-headed public school product! Kapow! Follow me in November! (OK I’ll leave that last part out in class) He wasn’t able to tame the government to be sure, but bless him [...] Czech President Vaclav Havel and the Rolling Stones… Prague 1990 Here is a great piece from yesterday’s The New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones coming to Prague — after 40-plus years behind the Iron Curtain and 25-years after the British Invasion of rock and roll had swept the West. That night in [...] Every year a couple of professors at Beloit College in Wisconsin put out what they call “The Mindset List”. The List sets out some things that each years incoming freshman may not know or have ever experienced. For example… when I teach criminal law courses or my course in crime and media many [...] The Super Fight — Muhammad Ali v. Rocky Marciano… from 1970 and filmed three weeks before marciano died in a plane crash. From BoingBoing: In the late 1960s, the fighting styles, punching patterns, and other data about famous boxers like Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Rocky Marciano, and Muhammad Ali were entered into a computer to produce simulated [...] A little book post for this Tuesday morning. I always liked Nathaniel Hawthorne in my American Lit classes… 1600s America by way of 1800s filtered through the 1980s… the simmering tension, the supernatural aspects and the cold and bare New England… good and different stuff for this West Texas boy. I came [...] Another Trooper awaits us at This date in 1969 99.99% of Americans were not damn dirty hippies and went on with their daily lives. Share on Facebook Here’s an interesting piece from The Wilson Quarterly on how isolated modern people are — while ironically being more connected. America: Land of Loners?: We have not, of course, turned into Solarians here on earth, strictly limiting our numbers and shunning our fellow humans in revulsion. Yet it’s hard not to see some Solarian parallels [...] You might be surprised, this being from state owned BBC, but they have produced a two part radio presentation that details the useful idiots who enabled the bloody reign of Stalin and others…among those Walter Duranty of The New York Times. You can listen to it HERE or HERE H/T Ace of Spades You can also download MP3’s [...] Outlaw put this in the comments to his Po-Po post below. It really deserves its own post. Share on Facebook It’s Ozz-Fest weekend ’round these parts, so a brief divergence from the Funky Friday Flashback. Solidarnosc, MFers!!! That’s right, Trzupek, you’ll dig the first video the most. Stosh, too. Video below the break because it’s autoplay: Share on Facebook From NBC Washington Via The Jawa Reoprt A group of young Americans were told to stop singing THE NATIONAL ANTHEM at the Lincoln Memorial by Park Police. Members of the conservative Young America’s Foundation, were told by U.S. Park Police that they were “were in violation of federal law and their impromptu performance constituted a demonstration in [...] Here’s a good full look at the Israeli response to a nuclear Iran and a portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) from The Atlantic… according to Jeffrey Goldberg… they are fast approaching the point of no return. But the Israelis are doubtful that a man who positioned himself as the antithesis of George W. Bush, [...] In my Diplomatic History course tonight we’ll be talking about post WW2 foreign policy — including the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and the creation of NATO. There were, of course, reservations by all parties in the formation of NATO. When the Treaty of Washington was signed in 1949 with all appropriate pomp [...] Here’s a great Christopher Hitchens piece on Hugo Chavez from August 2 at Slate and it even contains a very slight redemption of Sean Penn (emphasis on slight) and a very damning portrait of Chavez. He just might be a lunatic — certifiably so. Or is he? Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez’s politicized necrophilia [...] The Cardinals and Reds had a bench clearing brawl yesterday… the comments that sparked the brawl? From Reds 2B Brandon Phillips on Monday: “I’d play against these guys with one leg,” Phillips told reporters before the Reds’ 7-3 loss to St. Louis on Monday. “We have to beat these guys. I hate the Cardinals. All [...] We’re all familiar with the number of dead on 9-11 — or its approximation — 3,000 total including over 2,700 in the World Trade Center attack. I had assumed that after nearly 9 years that most (well over most) remains had been recovered and identified. That assumption was wrong**. Human Remains Discovered Since 2006 About [...] Oh, hell yes!!! Made all the sweeter in that Trent Reznor probably has no idea a nine inch nails song’s used throughout this trailer … H/T — Shane Covey, one bad-ass guitarist (and cool guy) Share on Facebook Every year in my summer courses around this time — and definitely in my Fall International Law seminar — I have to set the record straight when it comes to Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The “hate America crowd” loves to hit us over the head with Fat [...] On this date in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt and the War Department handled unlawful enemy combatants (8 German saboteurs in their military tribunal above and made famous in the Supreme Court case Ex parte Quirin they way they should be handled — burying them after their electrocution. Share on Facebook Share on Facebook …and some Japanese are still pissed. I’d tell them to go and try peddle their pity party in Seoul, Korea and see how that works out for them. Don’t like how your war ended maybe your country shouldn’t have started it. Take a look at this I notice nobody ever protests or marks the anniversary [...] JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A modest NCO received the Army’s third-highest award for valor July 22 during the welcome-home ceremony for 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Staff Sgt. Jarrett D. Brown of 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, received a Silver Star on Watkins Field at the beginning of a busy ceremony that included the [...] |
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