Keep Business's Dirty Hands Off the Guvmint!

Particularly the student loan program:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11loans.html
 
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Higher Dimensions

Looking forward to reading Harvard physicist Lisa Randall's new book called WARPED PASSAGES.       It's about gravity and string theory. 

I doubt if I will understand much of it--I didn't her first--but I do remember one thing about the first.  She argued for the possibility that some of the unperceived dimensions as per string theory might actually be rather "large"--instead of being tiny and coiled up, which is how they are usually posited by them such as make such theories.  Hers is the one I want to believe since it seems to invite the possibility that perhaps one day we will really have "warp speed" a la Star Trek, and intergalactic civilizations & stuff as per the science fiction of my youth.  

I particularly like the universe as envisioned by James Schmitz.  See the WITCHES OF KARRES and his short story, "The Second Night of Summer" which for some reason is my favorite sci fi short story of all time. 

R.
 
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Sympathy for the Tea Party

I don't like the Tea Party and I don't like Wal-Mart,  and it is a good turn of phrase (below) but having the Tea Partiers dissed by effete, snobby pseudo-intellectual  David Brooks is one thing that gives me a little tingle of sympathy for the Tea Party folks...

David Brooks: Tea Partiers are 'Wal-Mart hippies'

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks assailed the Tea Party and the extreme nature of today's Republican Party Tuesday on ComedyCentral's The Colbert Report.
"The Tea Party is where the money is at, baby," said Stephen Colbert. "Why aren't you saying crazy stuff your in columns and if you pardon the expression, put some asses in the seats?"
"Well, the Tea Parties they're like the hippies," Brooks responded. "The hippies wanted to stick it to the man and they were anti-establishment. So the Tea Parties are like the Wal-Mart hippies."

Colbert jested that Brooks should be less moderate and shun news organizations that aren't sufficiently conservative.

"You go on PBS," noted Colbert. "That's the enemy camp. You cannot be friends with these people. Okay?"

 
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