To the moon, Alice

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is sending back fantastic moon photos. You can even see the astronauts’ path in the dust. This is good stuff. There’s a lot of really great moon walk retrospective available now and let us not forget the Onion. If you can handle a slightly profane…OK, extremely profane look at moon walk coverage, you need to look at the Onion’s coverage that added a dose of reality to the situation.

The bourbon market has hit a drought. Here’s an explanation of the situation. Someone was weak on predicting the need for hard stuff.

Peter Singer takes a look at health care rationing. Interesting stuff. The article includes a great old joke. Take the link for that:

Health care is a scarce resource, and all scarce resources are rationed in one way or another. In the United States, most health care is privately financed, and so most rationing is by price: you get what you, or your employer, can afford to insure you for. But our current system of employer-financed health insurance exists only because the federal government encouraged it by making the premiums tax deductible.

Sam Jordison takes a look at the price of words. I still haven’t looked at an electronic book.

I attended a meeting in Fayette last night. On my way home – right about at Twin Curves – the pavement was wet. I discovered this morning that a tenth of an inch fell. Not much to help out these dry times, but a tenth more than Fayette got.

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