It\u2019s always good talking to the boys.\u00a0 What will be the topic for the week?\u00a0 What will be the funniest or the craziest or the most annoying topic for the Left?\u00a0 There were several candidates; NYC subway necrophilia, General Flynn\u2019s call for Obama\u2019s arrest and NY AG Leticia James\u2019 real estate fraud scandal.\u00a0 But everyone\u2019s favorite by a lot was \u201cLeftist Hags in Space!\u201d\u00a0 We all got a good laugh out of the likes of Gayle King, Bezos’ fianc\u00e9e Lauren Sanchez, washed up pop star Katy Perry and nobodies Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen squealing around on top of a comically phallic \u201cBlue Origin\u201d rocket that rose to an unimpressive 62 miles above Earth and then parachuted back.\u00a0 The whole roundtrip took place within a ridiculously short 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
This all female \u201ccrew\u201d followed in the footsteps of 90+ year old fake rocket man James T Kirk, (AKA William Shatner) as he also failed to reach Earth orbit in the painfully underpowered suborbital rocket.\u00a0 It was the opinion of all on the zoom call that a better effect could have been achieved if Bezos had instead equipped the ship with a female crew composed entirely of professional strippers.\u00a0 There was disagreement as to whether weightlessness was a problem or a bonus from the point of performance.\u00a0 Also, it was debated whether a stripper pole would be a safety hazard in the \u201ccockpit.\u201d<\/p>\n
I noticed Camera Girl looking disapprovingly at me as she walked by at this point during the zoom call but free speech is a cherished right of the coffee walk tradition so I ignored the implied censorship and laughed along with the rest of the jackasses.\u00a0 Ah, good times.<\/p>\n
So, we compared the press coverage of this absurdly unimpressive publicity stunt and compared it to Space-X planning and executing a critical rescue of actual astronauts from the orbiting space station where Boeing\u2019s failure stranded them for over half a year.\u00a0 Basically, other than Fox News the rest of the media performed a virtual black out of the Space-X mission while the Bezos stunt was given 24\/7 coverage by all the news stations as if it were something worthy of discussion.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s impossible not to come to the conclusion that Jeff Bezos has managed to make space travel uncool.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ll qualify this.\u00a0 Suborbital rocket flight is not really space-travel.\u00a0 It\u2019s really just air travel of a very inconvenient and useless kind.\u00a0 But he has managed to attach a taint to rocket flight which I wouldn\u2019t have thought possible.\u00a0 And I should have expected nothing less from the founder of Amazon.com.\u00a0 After all, the company who has his annoying trucks delivering things at my house seemingly before I order them would obviously be able to make rocket ships annoying too.<\/p>\n
Well, I can always hope that the next all female crew will be Democrat politicians.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Hillary Clinton and Maxine Waters.\u00a0 Put all four of them in blue jumpsuits and at least for ten minutes I can hope against hope for some real excitement.\u00a0 Engine, O-ring, parachute, whatever.<\/p>\n