Tag: american culture

Just before dawn this morning the space shuttle Atlantis landed marking the end of the 30 year old space shuttle program. Here’s the video of the final landing: I still remember the first launch like it was yesterday. It’s really sad to see this program disappear given it’s iconic stature in American culture. Hopefully the […]

I never got a chance to touch on last week’s saga of “Balloon Boy”, so I have to mention now how this is so indicative of the problems with our society. We now live in a country where people will do anything to get on the teevee. The Heene family is the epitome of this […]