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Sunday, March 02, 2003 |
Tom Lehrer: Is He Still Alive?. "I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them." A fantastic interview, via MetaFilter. Must reading.
"The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.
... One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness."
I was thinking almost the exact same thing last night watching the new Maher show on HBO.
On ageing: "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years."
On performing: "It isn't as though I have to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, $3000 a year just teaching."
On his claimed Latin translation of The Wizard of Oz: "[it] remains even today the standard Latin version of that work..
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NASA chief rejects idea that nothing could've been done. San Francisco Chronicle - If NASA had known that the Columbia was in trouble during its mission, the space agency would have devoted all its resources to finding a way to save the crew, Sean O'Keefe, the NASA administrator, said Friday.
This is heartening to hear. It's unimaginable that, if they'd had an idea about serious problems with Columbia that they would just have re-entered anyway. Dittemore had almost implied as much in the first days after the disaster, making one think that they actually did have suspicions about damage to the orbiter, but decided not to tell anyone. I doubt this is the case, but it was troubling.
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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