A nonprofit organization in the Netherlands with the name Mars One has invited people to apply for a pretty nifty job: be colonists on Mars. It took only a few days for them to get 78,000 applications. How are they planning to fund the whole thing? Treat it as the ultimate Reality TV show. As someone who has had a life-long love of science fiction my mind rebels at the thought.
George Takei narrates a new fun Public Service Announcement for marriage equality. Says Takei:
There is one person living on this street whose orientation threatens to destroy society....Dale looks normal, but he gives off clues of his prejudice with buzzwords like 'pro-family', 'traditional marriage' or .... 'pole smoker'.
Yeah, it's been perhaps two weeks since Congress exempted the FAA from the Sequester budget cuts, ending delays at airports from low staffing of traffic controllers. Terrence Heath wrote about the indifference of lawmakers and included this little quote from Rep. Lee Terry, GOP from Nebraska:
I vote to shift funds to stop FAA furloughs and now U.S. AIR says my plane home is delayed. Oh the irony!Oh the cluelessness!
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