Fiat Lux, the Congressional Way Sunday, May 6 2007 

Global Warmng/Climate Change and Politics gottafang 7:13 pm

Democratic congress trying to mandate fluorescent light bulbs everywhere. So that means everybody’s homes will look like a welfare office. Or a basement workshop.

Money quote from See-Dubya in the post:

People complain about social conservatives needing to stay out of their bedrooms. But globwarming greens are fooling around in every damned room in my house.

As one of the commenters wrote:

Q: How many greens does it take to change a light bulb.

A: None, but it does take an act of congress.

UPDATE:  I’m sure this news won’t set well with the designers on the shows run on HGTV!

 

“Oh, the Humanity!” Sunday, May 6 2007 

Uncategorized gottafang 8:39 am

Seventy years ago this evening, the Hindenburg exploded as it prepared to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The clip below is a silent newsreel featuring footage of the crash.

The spectacular, terrifying event made its mark in our culture: the pictures, Herb Morrison’s vivid narration (which was only being recorded on disk – he wasn’t broadcasting the event live), and all the theories as to why it happened. Seventy years since, nothing has managed to dim it even slightly.

As a note: Michael Biel, one of my broadcasting professors at Morehead State, is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry on Herb Morrison. He was a guy who could pick out the slightest edits from any audio and probably tell you what kind of microphone was used. The guy had the keenest sense of hearing humanly possible. We could never slip anything past him in audio production class.

 

It’s a Twista! Sunday, May 6 2007 

Science and Technology gottafang 7:38 am

Check out this site with a collection of tornado videos captured (with a reasonable amount of awe cut through with a little pants-wetting chaos) by storm chasers, featuring a twister from the massive, nasty storm that destroyed Greensburg, Kansas on Friday.

(h/t:  Professor Reynolds)