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They Also Serve, Who Only Orbit the Moon

Michael Collins, whose book Carrying the Fire about flight test and space ops (including his Apollo XI experience) is outstanding, has returned to base. He also turned up as “Old Man” in a small 2009 film, leading me to believe he was a pretty interesting guy, space travel aside. RIP.

Everyone Who Didn’t Get His Home Searched by the Feds Today, Raise Your Hand

Not so fast, Giuliani!

Oops

Horrifying https://t.co/C7KZpPvEfo

— Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) (@jeremyfaust) April 28, 2021

The Milgram Experiment for the Twenty-First Century

This pervasive refusal to grasp that vaccination is not exclusively about mitigating the individual risk to you personally is borderline sociopathic. https://t.co/yiNDC6peXu

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 28, 2021

The Most Half-Assed Corporate Tyrants Imaginable

“I wrote a book about how big tech is evil. Buy it now on Amazon,” he wrote on Twitter for iPhone. https://t.co/HtJhsk7Nlt

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 28, 2021

Puzzle

Good headline, since I have to click through to find out if he’s talking about the thousands of grandmas he’s killed or the dozens of women he’s sexually harassed. https://t.co/QZrRtFPRL2

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) April 27, 2021

Silence Is Golden

How about if you see someone with a mask on outside you mind your own fucking business https://t.co/p1csDudyiT

— Patterico (@Patterico) April 27, 2021

Craig Ferguson: “Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said by me? Does this need to be said by me now?”

Also:

Our son’s friend has an immunocompromised sibling. The friend wears a mask outside. So I ask our kid to do so when his friend is over to make him comfortable. It’s called kindness. https://t.co/K5DkD0xWSm

— Rachael Larimore (@RachaelBL) April 27, 2021

Some Parents Let These People Teach Their Kids

School bans—not requires, bans—vaccinations for staff members:

What. The. https://t.co/4bsHAQObuO

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) April 26, 2021

Hey, What’s a Few Thousand More Dead at This Point?

Yesterday I noted that many people were failing to get their second shot of two-dose vax regimens. And now this news about the one-shot alternative:

💀💀💀https://t.co/pnm0blboxR pic.twitter.com/V7soXSOiYG

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 26, 2021

An Even Worse Human Being Than We’d Imagined

John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. Let that sink in. Wow. https://t.co/lmzhamTWFf pic.twitter.com/DzMAHAJeGy

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 26, 2021

The Enduring Half-Assedness of America’s Covid Response

millions of people are missing their appointments for second doses https://t.co/JjWntUj6cU pic.twitter.com/e93orVsDrv

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) April 25, 2021