Waiting for Miami Vice

Well, here I am, about a week away from the opening of Miami Vice - Brokeback Mountain and Pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man's Chest have come & gone - & I'm feeling a thrill of anticipation the likes of which I haven't felt about an upcoming movie in a loooooong time!

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!

I visited the updated site for Miami Vice and I was impressed with the way it managed to immerse me in the film in a way that no movie site has ever done before.

www.miamivice.com

Miami Vice: Cool, it is!

I went to see King Kong yesterday and caught the trailer for Miami Vice.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From what I saw, it looks like Miami Vice is going to be the coolest movie of 2006! In fact, I predict it's going to be cooler than all the other movies that are going to be released next year put together!

New Mexico Virgin

This makes me nervous. A spaceport run by the New Mexico government will be subject to the inherent and arbitrary vagaries of politics. It does not strike me as being a solid foundation for Branson's new venture - or any one else's, for that matter. I really wish Branson would build his own spaceport with his own money and run it himself on land that he personally owns. The quicksand of politics is nothing to build an industry on.

Just one issue: look at what has already happened to SpaceX because of their decision to use existing government launch facilities. Why wouldn't a spaceport in New Mexico experience similar conflicts with nearby government and military facilities that could and will claim priority on launch windows?

Katrina

After reading Robert Tracinski's assessment - in TIA Daily - of the situation in New Orleans, plus the posts on various aspects of the disaster response and recovery effort on the Harry Binswanger List, the only conclusion left for me to draw is that whoever decides to return to New Orleans and Louisiana to rebuild should make it one of their very first and crucial priorities to circulate recall petitions for both Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco. Both of them are obviously incompetent political hacks who were not the least bit interested in preparing for Hurrican Katrina, despite the fact that they both had at least 2 days to do so. In this, I see no difference between their response and the response of those welfare dependents who saw no reason to flee New Orleans or prepare for the aftermath.

As I see it, Hurrican Katrina as an atrocity is not so unspeakable as the characters of Nagin and Blanco.

On the metaphysical status of bullies

Anyone who places force ahead of thought is less than human.