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U.S. Effectively Abandons Human Space Flight

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So the United States today launched its last space shuttle mission ever, leaving the task of supporting the International Space Station to Russia, a country ruled for all intents and purposes by a dictator.

NASA, along with its international partners, apparently thought it would be a good idea to build a space station and then retire its fleet of transport vehicles without any replacement in existence.

In about a week, after the final shuttle flight lands, the United States will no longer have the technical ability to put a single human being into earth orbit.

How’s that for leadership in technology and science?  That’s your current president at work who was supposed to possess some magical form of science awareness.

Onward presses NASA with its plan to privatize space station supply launches… sometime… perhaps… in the next five years.

The shuttle was expensive to operate and sometimes dangerous, but it was a successful machine.  No such thing exists now.  Typically, when I’m ready to replace my automobile I go buy the new one first.  Then I bring it home, park it in the driveway and think about how best to dispose of the old clunker.  That’s how it works with me.  I’m just sayin’…

Henry Miller Discusses Life, Love, Sex, Art, Writing, Jung and Enlightenment in His Bathroom

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MATURE CONTENT – NUDITY:

The great American writer, Henry Miller, walks into his bathroom in 1973 and talks about all the fascinating pictures on the walls. Here’s a guy who can kill zombies with his words. I’ve always considered him to be an antidote to the lifeless people one must engage with on a daily basis. The people who get into cars and make their way to offices, then return to relax with a television and cook at the barbecue built into the island on the patio. You can reconnect with life by reading Miller’s books. You can once again feel that the world is actually a place where art and passion exist. Miller excites imagination. He makes you want to live harder and better. Listen to him talk in his bathroom! Anyone who can be this fantastic in his bathroom has got something marvelous going on.  The film was shot and directed by Tom Schiller.

Splitscreen: A Love Story

by Cimaxion

This is a very nice and expertly done split-screen romance by J.W. Griffiths that leads up to a sweet ending that one can see coming right from the start.  That’s kind of the point of the film actually. It’s the matching details that make the film work so well.  It was shot entirely on a Nokia N8 mobile phone and it won the Nokia Shorts Competition 2011.

With thanks to Jill Coyne.