Last night I noted the North Korean “drones” that crashed landed just over the border into South Korea and are getting all the headlines – and that they appear to be something more like model airplanes than the sort of armed drones we mostly think about and even a good deal less advanced to the much smaller surveillance drones used by advanced militaries that do look a lot like and to an extent are high end model airplanes.
It looks like Obama and Kerry are seriously considering releasing Jonathan Pollard for a few scraps of blah blah and perhaps one full portion of yessing. So deeply conceived and stupid. God, I hope they don’t do this.
Ed Kilgore on the “enthusiasm gap” that media pundits love to chew over: “it’s well known there are many factors contributing to turnout rates that have little or nothing to do with ‘enthusiasm.’”
Jon Stewart asks if CNN has checked “their own A**holes” for the missing Malaysian plane. (Mainly, I’m worried this will give the folks there an idea for a new virtual reality board segment.) Watch.
Citing Pope Francis, Archbishop of Atlanta apologizes for plan to build himself $2.2 million home.
I had to look at this a few times before assuring myself it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. But it’s been reported in numerous outlets and I just picked up the photos off our AP wire account and anyway it’s now April 2nd. So I have to assume it’s true. After an exchange of artillery fire on Monday, the South Korean Defense Ministry released photos of an alleged North Korean drone that had crashed on Beangnyeong Island, near the border between North and South. But here’s the thing: I was a boy who grew up in the pre-Internet era. And based on that knowledge I can corrected identify this as a model airplane. At a minimum North Korea’s focus on nuclear weapons has come at the severe determinant has pretty seriously prioritized nuclear weapons research over drone development.
8 year old Olivia McConnell had a dream of having the Wooly Mammoth declared the official state fossil of South Carolina. And a law to make it so was on the verge of passage before getting held up on State Sen. Kevin Bryant (R) insistence that the authorizing legislation specify that the God created the mammoth on the “on the sixth day with the beasts of the field.”
In today’s installment, CNN did a cool graphic of a boat equipped with sonar to map the ocean’s of the entire globe to find the plane. They calculate it will take 2,995 years. (Presumably also 3000 year of blanket coverage.) Watch.
Founder of 2012 Unskewed Poll Movement debunks 7 million sign up figure.