Archive for December 5th, 2006

NASA’s New Moon Landing

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
NASA‘s new plan to create a permanent base on the moon is about the only Bush Administration initiative that I can get behind with unwavering enthusiasm. A great nation needs to not only deal with it’s more mundane and terrestrial problems, but it also needs epic aspirations that inspire its citizens to a cause beyond [...]

Happy Prohibition Repeal Day!

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Dewars is conducting a very clever promotion by trying to make today, December 5, a new holiday: National Prohibition Repeal Day. Their promotional site features a video by Vice Magazine that illustrates the horrors of a world in which Prohibition never ended. Here’s a PDF of the stories the New York Times ran on December [...]