THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

New York City’s tallest skyscraper is now the 1WTC. Not a new bulls-eye, they say, but a middle finger to al-Qaeda. I was a surprised to see this. I’ve been busy with other things and forgot it was going up. Nice work. Pity, though, that there aren’t two of them.

Obamaloot’s Big Lie hasn’t gotten any more honest or believable since he told it in his State of the Union message to Congress back in January: “Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration…. But with only two percent of the world’s oil reserves, oil isn’t enough.” [...]

Robert McCall was the dean of American space artists and his painting of a proposed moon base (for the 1960s Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey) still haunts my dreams. It might have come true but for the wasted billions spent on the stupid Democrat (JFK & LBJ) war in Viet Nam. Now with Uncle [...]

I’ve yet to read a bad science fiction story by Brit author Eric Brown and Kings of Eternity, a tale of conferred immortality is certainly one of his best. It’s his characters and their inner lives that make the books as interesting as they are, even when the plot is as imaginatively intricate as it [...]

I covered the first landing of the space shuttle in 1981. The first space ship. They did real work, hauling satellites to orbit, until the Challenger explosion in 1986. After that, it was busy-work and and increasingly boring. And the disintegration of Columbia over Texas in ’03 showed it was still dangerous. I remember the shuttle-inspired first [...]

According to this analysis, the high price of gasoline has more to do with the closing of some East Coast refineries and a glut of pipeline oil in Oklahoma, than Uncle Barry’s refusal to allow increased oil and gas production. But presidents always get the blame for things like high gas prices, whether they deserve [...]

There’s nothing typical about this space opera, with some intricate overtones of hard science involving the biochemistry of the brain. The more you read the more the clever story unfolds until, pretty soon, you’re in a very different place from where you started—which is all the spoiler I’m giving. Really nice work by author Paul [...]

Now here’s an idea that, if it’s really as promising as the initial claims suggest, could not only solve the so-called energy crisis (promoted by the radical Greens who want to stop drilling for available oil and gas), but global warming (to the extent it’s really a problem) and, gasp, climate change. If Obamalot really is [...]

Jane is the name of our Tom Tom automobile navigation system. She speaks in a refined British accent, which is always amusing, especially when she mentions roundabouts, which we don’t have in Texas. We’ll miss her. The Obama bureaucracy wants to cripple Tom Tom and similar devices. The Janes and their dynamic screens are too [...]

Riding one of the (now defunct) space shuttle’s Solid Rocket Boosters to 41 miles high and back again to splash down in the Atlantic. Even the audio is orgasmic. Via Instapundit.