I see Wile E. Musk is fucking up the fishing off Boca Chica again.
I happened to glance at The New York Times homepage about 90 seconds before launch, saw the live coverage from the X-Man’s spin doctors, and stuck around to see what happened.
Boom, is what. Actually, more like boom boom.
How long before Wile E. blames this latest “rapid unscheduled disassembly” on the Jewish space lasers?
Meanwhile, who’s ready to go to Mars? Show of hands? Anybody?
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I just knew it. When I heard “rapid unscheduled disassembly”, I knew you would be all over it like a duck on a June bug. Whoever coined that should be given a big raise.
I’d like to know the tonnage of debris and chemicals this beast dumps into the air and ocean each go-round. Never seem to get that info.
Never mind the dollars down the toilet. I suppose that’s a tax writeoff.
Billionaire brats do whatever they want.
“Off we go into, the Wile E. Yonder”. I like that. Very good sir.
It seems as though if we were back in the past and a hiccup like that occurred during a NASA launch, that folks wouldn’t be so positive about it. But add in the for-profit developer and the briefs from the hired spin doctors and every crash is a good crash. It is interesting. But if Mr. Musk has plenty of money to blast around with, and none of the parts come raining down on his Tesla customers, I suppose it’s not too bad that SpaceEx pushes the technology. He may not be every coffee barista’s favorite mogul, and he may speak out impulsively at the drop of a papal tiara, and in his heart probably believes that everyone’s free speech is innocent and peaceful, but I suppose it’s better that he resides over here and not in some dacha outside of Moscow.
As for a ride to Mars, “sure”. Just after my life expires and packaged in the front seat of a Tesla.
On a technical note, it took me several iterations before I was able to post this comment. I was not able to add my email and name as I always do – That area was not present. I then copied my message (it is important of course), and returned to your column several times attempting to make the post. Finally I pasted my text, placed the cursor at the end of the last character and then hit the “Enter”/ return key on my keyboard, and the login email and name area suddenly appeared.
I guess the WordPress ‘puters had a unplanned data denial event.
Musk’s arrogance would not last long in Putin’s world. Musk’s business jet would have a rapid unscheduled disassembly that would be blamed on Linda Yaccarino.
I dunno that the Russians need him. They seem to get into space and back out again with little difficulty, though they did screw the pooch with their most recent moon mission.
Shucks, they claim to be planning their own space station. Where’s Gen. Buck Turgidson when America needs him?
Meanwhile, re:comments. Jeebus. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another, hah? I successfully commented at another WordPress site the other day, and if memory serves the three login options appeared immediately after I placed the cursor in the “Reply” box and started typing.
Oddly, once I selected WP as my login preference, and hit the “Reply” button, the button gave no audio/visual cue of having been clicked. But my comment appeared with my WP info attached. Something’s clearly not 100% under the WP hood. But at least it doesn’t explode.
Sorry but is Saturday or SHABBAT. Jewish Space Lasers do not work on Holy Days. Please keep in mind such activities are considered to be prohibited by biblical law. Let me suggest the real perpetrator…. MTG and the QAnon weenies did it. My reliable sources at Q clearance claim it was the PizzaGate Space Command Defense Forces or PGSCDF. I was sent compelling documentary evidence that PGSCDF thought Hillary was onboard. Looks like they will stop at nothing trying to ace the ANTIFADA Queen. But Hil has nine lives, no make that ten. Sure hope Flipper didn’t get booster dust dumped into his/her pristine gulf waters. If Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg finds out she would be out there at SpaceX Starbase Command cuttin’ Mr. Tweet a new asshole in a New York minute.
Shoot, what was I thinking? I can barely recall the tenets of my own alleged religion, seeing as Dad was a Papist and Mom was a Prod and the padre was just some four-eyed colonel with a beach towel draped over his eagles. The host always tasted like Aqua Velva, Lucky Strikes, and gin.
Pretty sure in 42.5 years of Army life, I never saw a sober catholic chaplain.
Excellent. Just excellent.
One bug I note is that no matter how many times I hit the “Notify me of new posts” button, I never get notified of new posts any more.
Another reader reports the same issue, K. Both of you are listed as “subscribed” on my side, so I don’t know what’s up there. I’m assuming you’ve checked your trash and junk folders to see if notifications have wound up there.
From WordPress:
Where my personal email account is concerned I’ve had recipients’ providers — Google and Yahoo, primarily — automatically reject my emails because my provider has a less-than-stellar reputation. There might be something similar happening here. Lemme nose around a bit and see what I can sniff out.
I get notified.
Exasperating it is, yes, my precious. Too many variables. Is it the “retired” theme? My insistence upon hewing to the good old Classic Editor instead of embracing the Block Editor (curse its name)? The email providers (neither of them among the bigger outfits like Google and Yahoo)?
The temptation to switch to Medium, Substack, Squarespace, or some other alternative is becoming harder to resist. But there are operational issues with those outfits, too. All I want to do is run my little one-lung blog with a minimum of interference.
Not in spam. I used to get them all the time. Ever since WordPress had its new, improved features, it stopped. But I do have your blog listed on my blog, and it always updates.
I’ve pinged the WP people again. We’ll see what they have to say.
Meanwhile, it could be possible that the emails are being rejected at the provider level, and thus you’re never seeing them, not even in spam. That’s what’s happening with my Hostcentric account. My outgoing emails from that provider get shitcanned right at the gate, for Google and Yahoo customers, anyway. The Serve-O-Bots don’t like ’em, not one little bit.
And getting hold of a customer-service type at Hostcentric, which is now Web.com, is nigh on impossible. So I’ve begun using my Gmail account for most stuff. Pain in the keister, is what.
I hear the gravel rides on Mars maybe fabulous.