Friday Open Thread

Filed in National by on July 30, 2010

Welcome to the Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread. Thanks to everyone who came out to Drinking Liberally last night. We had a great time and it’s always nice to meet new people. I’m spending the day at the beach today so be jealous!

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  1. liberalgeek says:

    I wish I could think of a project that would give me an excuse for launching a satellite. Oh, and I wish someone gave me 8K to pay for it.

  2. jason330 says:

    You mean you can’t think of anything better than the guy who wants to harvest the music of the ionosphere?

  3. liberalgeek says:

    I wonder if I could do something like that and put the recording out as a C’mon Delaware podcast. Might be less painful to listen to… 🙂

  4. cassandra m says:

    Can’t you say it’s for the kids? I’ve built a fair number of Tesla coils for other people’s kids — not always an effort that made their parents happy, but the kids were totally into it….

    EDIT — these Tesla coils didn’t cost anywhere near $8K tho.

  5. liberalgeek says:

    We could build a satellite that launches it’s payload of teabags just as it passes over Washington, DC.

    Or we could use it to take a picture of Putin’s head as it rises over Alaska.

    Or we could build a drone that identifies and shoots down the FoxNews satellite.

  6. anon says:

    Can I launch my wife’s cat?

    With the vet bills we are getting, the $8K will pay for itself.

  7. jason330 says:

    The $8 k can be billed to the O’Donnell campaign as long as we allow her to claim it as her residence.

  8. anonone says:

    “US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs”

    One can imagine that Afghani civilian deaths have also soared.

    Afghanistan 2010 = Vietnam 1968

    And it’s 1-2-3, what are we fighting for?

  9. skippertee says:

    “Where have all the flowers gone?”

  10. delacrat says:

    Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn.

    Next stop’s gonna be Iran.