A great read from contributing editor Peggy Noonan at the Wall St. Journal opinion journal.
This is the best encapsulation of my feelings on the Howard Dean campaign that I’ve seen yet. It explains why he’s going to lose the general election if he gets the Democratic nomination (as he probably will).
I admit to having made the mistake of seeing the movie adaptation of Tom Clancy’s 1984 novel, “The Hunt for Red October,” before reading the book. The only real problem with seeing the movie first was that I kept imagining Russian sub captain Marko Ramius with Sean Connery’s accent.
If you’ve ever read anything from Douglas Adams’s immensely popular “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series, you are probably already well-aware of what to expect from his other books.
CNN.com reports that NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, has landed successfully on Mars and is transmitting images.
Spirit’s sister probe is expected to land on the red planet later this month, we’ll see how it fares. Most probes sent to land on Mars are mysteriously never heard from again after their attempts to land.
“Fahrenheit 451—the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns . . . ”
I heard of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 a few years ago when I saw five minutes of the 1966 film adaptation. I don’t know why, but I never saw the rest of the film. The idea stuck with me though: firemen in the future being responsible for burning books, rather than saving lives.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
