Looks like it was that bad. Kaiser claims the press conference “aggravated the doubts of a lot of people.” One literate friend quotes Fischer on Amis: The Bush performance “isn’t bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. It’s not-knowing-where-to-look bad. … It’s like your favourite uncle being caught in a school playground, masturbating.”
Bush Press Conference
by | 2004-04-14 | No Comments
Obviously, I didn/’t get to see the Bush press conference, but I received the following observations: He didn’t answer a single question (most of which were softballs), he was offered and refused 3 or 4 opportunities to admit that he’d made any mistakes at all over the course of his administration and he refused to …
Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
The highlight of the Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security, so far, has been the tour of The Beijing Museum of Astronautics. I have some great pictures of myself with China’s first ballistic missile (the 1059) and its first nuclear armed ballistic missile (the DF-2/CSS-1). Visitors can actually look inside the missiles – which …
Putin Calls for Space Weapons Ban
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
In a speech on the 43rd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin/’s epochal spaceflight, President Vladimir Putin called for the demilitarization of outer space: “We all know that for many years, space was an area for military and political rivalry. Today, we are doing, and must do, everything to demilitarize space. And by turning it into an …
