Alabama-Coushatta Indians are shedding their passive ways in big bets on land claims and casinos. But some fear they could be gambling away their great tribal heritage.
It's a sure bet that when Neil Armstrong dies, coverage will be limited
to a two minute retrospective culminating with "One small step for
man..." playing over his official NASA photo. Meanwhile, CNBC today is
still reporting on the "financial impact of Michael Jackson's death."
One walked on the moon, the other merely moonwalked, and yet garments
are being rent in grief for the latter all over the globe. Stay tuned
for news that Japan and Hungary have both declared national days of
mourning. (
You know what sucked about the moon landing? They didn't Twitter it.If it's not on Twitter, we're not sure we can trust that it happened. Even if the headlines say otherwise.Now, however, the problem is solved, thanks to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.They've put together an impressive "relive it as it happened" multi-media site and they've also got a "as if they were Twittering" account.At 8:54 a.m. June 27, they Twittered forth to friend and foe alike "Associated Press just released tha
Photo courtesy NASAA salute to Mr. JablonskiHey, guess what!! Monday brings the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing!!Oh, you heard? Well, get ready to hear more -- this weekend and Monday will no doubt be a "One small step for man" marathon.Which is fine -- the moon mission was a crazy, awe-inspiring thing that could have gone wrong a million ways but didn't. Even though the Apollo program cost about a trillion dollars in today's money, it did give us Tang.And it also gave us our five
NASA is continuing its information dump for the 40th anniversary of the moon landing; now they have put on the `net digital recordings of some of the private in-capsule conversations of the Apollo 11 astronauts."You're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off," NASA's release says. "What do you say? Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out."Transcripts, which have been available previously, enable you to foll
Photo courtesy NASAMichael Collins, the man who orbited the moon while Neil and Buzz had all the fun, isn't doing any interviews, apparently, for the 40th anniversary. But through NASA he's put out a Q&A with himself answering what he says are the biggest FAQs he gets.Most of it is predictable, and in fact many answers quote extensively from his (very good) book Carrying the Fire.But he does cut loose a bit. At one point, ranting about celebrity culture in America, he says: Celebrities? What
Photo by NASAIn the old days of Hollywood, they used to talk of "the Jesus Curse" -- any actor who played JC on screen was thereafter soomed to obscurity.Does the same thing happen to actors who play Neil Armstrong? There aren't as many Apollo 11 movies as you might expect, but the evidence still is strong:5) Apollo 11 -- A 1996 made-for-TV movie, Armstrong is played by Jeffrey Nordling. Yes,the Jeffrey Nordling, the one who had played Coach Ted Orion in Mighty Ducks 3: Direct to Video!!, or wh
