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Lazy Morning

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Slept in until 930am when someone called my cell phone. Sloooooow morning.

Blogging from the couch.

Flatulence in Space

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is next: farting.

There was all kinds of stuff in the news that made me angry this morning, so as has become customary on days like this, I’m going to pretend I didn’t read any of that and move straight on to the fart jokes:

For those of you who think flatulence is a laughing matter, let me tell you from some readings and meetings I attended back during my Boeing space-station design days, it isn’t. It’s an extremely serious health issue in spacecraft. Pile seven people in an RV and recycle their individual up-to-two-liters-per-day of passed gas for two weeks and you’ve got a description of a Shuttle mission. Astronauts on orbit report getting used to the smell as it slowly builds up and the scrubbers fall behind. Post-landing Orbiter cleanup janitors have been known to puke from the stench upon entering the crew compartment – or so I’ve been told.

By jwz@jwz.org. [jwz]

Tony Blair

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The question is: What do you leave behind?

And what you can bequeath to this anxious world is the light of liberty.

That is what this struggle against terrorist groups or states is about. We’re not fighting for domination. We’re not fighting for an American world, though we want a world in which America is at ease. We’re not fighting for Christianity, but against religious fanaticism of all kinds.


And this is not a war of civilizations, because each civilization has a unique capacity to enrich the stock of human heritage.


We are fighting for the inalienable right of humankind–black or white, Christian or not, left, right or a million different–to be free, free to raise a family in love and hope, free to earn a living and be rewarded by your efforts, free not to bend your knee to any man in fear, free to be you so long as being you does not impair the freedom of others.


That’s what we’re fighting for. And it’s a battle worth fighting.