Delicious punditry today:
I've always been kind of bored by the space program. But now I see why it has been necessary to fund it all these years — so that we could come to this day. To this story [link to crazy woman astronaut]. It may have cost tens of billions of dollars, but I'll warrant it was worth it. - John Podhertz
...From 2005 by the paper's very fine science writer, Jeremy A. Manier: "The crew's main preparation for the return of gravity is to drink copious amounts of fluid—about half a gallon each in the hour before the de-orbit burn. Weeks of zero gravity trick the body into thinking it has too much fluid, and the body responds by retaining less water. If astronauts do not drink a day's worth of salt-laden fluid just before re-entry, they can get light-headed when normal gravity returns." Evidently, considering they're strapped in with a half-gallon of water in them, they have to wear diapers. Just another glorious nugget of information that has been broken loose from its obscure moorings by the electrifying story of the would-be murderous lady astronaut with the BB gun and the wig and the trenchcoat. - John Podhertz
I think Giuliani in 1982 was "one of us." Pro-life, married to his high school sweet heart and conservative. He ceased to be " one of us" in the interim. I think you have struck on an important idea about him. Conservatives loved two things about Nixon: 1) his enemies; 2) his anti-communism/national defense bona fides. In office his reaction to his enemies and their obsession with him destroyed him and he moved to detente. Giuliani is like that. He is a man comfortable with serial adultery, living with gay men and, fatally, a shi tzu. - a Corner emailer
As a Christian, I care far less about Haggard's "discovery" that he is "completely heterosexual" (which I guess means gladiator movies leave him entirely unmoved?) than about his resolve to honor his marital vows; what matters morally isn't the precise configuration of his passions but his will to order them toward the good of his wife, family, community, and vocation. - another corner emailer
Nothing says romance like conversion. Abraham leaps from polytheism to monotheism, and just look what happens to his wife–at ninety years old, no less. What about Paul? He turns Christian, and pretty soon he’s writing history’s most famous meditation on love. Nope, nothing says romance like conversion.- Stanley Kurtz
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