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Articles for the day…

(you’ll need a nytimes registration to access the first two. it’s free.)

“The North Korean nuclear crisis is far more perilous than many people realize.”

“…our current approach ó using hugely expensive rockets to launch a handful of people into space, where they have nothing much to do ó is a dead end. “

When the Challenger blew up, I was watching with the rest of the school on television. They sent us home and I cried all the way as I walked through the woods to my house. I had dreamt, like lots of kids, of growing up to be an astronaut and traveling to space. Space Camp is probably my favorite movie of all time. Today I better understand the risks involved with going to space. And so did the astronauts. It’s pretty amazing, given the technology of the space shuttle, (> 20 years old) and just pure number of things that could go wrong with spaceflight, that this is only the third time NASA has lost astronauts due to catastrophe. But still, they were up there pushing us forward, making progress. The media down here keeps dragging us back to a comfortable place where everything is okay. Unfortunately, everything is not okay. We’re about to go to war with two countries, our personal freedoms are being hijacked. And what can I do about it? I sit here and work everyday, trying to make money to pay for the house, the car. Buy food. And guess what? I am a happy person. Are Americans just happily ignorant of what’s really going on in the world? Is that why almost no one is speaking up? Is that why less than half of us vote?

Crap I have no idea. Maybe one of these days, one of these posts will actually make sense.

“America Grieves. America Fights Back. America Cries. America Recovers. America: What Will Happen Next? America: Find the Bastards Responsible!”

(BTW Dad- I posted this at lunch)