A blog-carnival exposing anti-space silliness for ridicule and scorn, and otherwise showcasing funny space- and science-related news items.
- NASA may not be able to launch a Shuttle, but they’ve found a way to automatically find pr0n surfers at HQ.
- British Rail flying saucer? Or April Fool’s Day hoax?
- Forrest Mimms witnesses “save the planet” environmental cultism reaching its logical conclusion.
- Bruce Gagnon (who is again in my neighborhood this week) recycles the tired “social programs before space programs” refrain via a racist poem about Apollo from the 1970s. Mark seems surprised. He wouldn’t be, had he seen the racist cartoons Bruce selected for his book.
- Inspired by early results from Stardust, Elaine rants about…I don’t know what. But it has something to do with cosmic “debrie”.
Racist cartoons? Do tell.
Page 4, cartoon by W.B. Park entitled “Ancient Buffalo has a vision of the future”: stereotypical American Indians sit around a campfire, as a man in a Flintstones “Grand Pooh-bah” headdress (!) speaks to them about the idealized “Noble Savage” conditions of the (pre-Columbian) Americas. Then he describes a dream in which “strange, pale-faced people” arrive, bringing with them death, overpopulation, disease, greed, and environmental destruction, with the clear implication that these are inherent traits of these “pale-faced” strangers that set them apart from the American Indians.
Page 118, cartoon by W.B. Park entitled “The Boys in the Band”: features caricature of Richard Perle, who is a Jew, with bony, clawlike fingers, darkened eyes, and what looks like a covetous smirk, reminiscent of the antisemitic cartoon imagery of 1930s Germany. Reinforcing this impression is the fact that his image is slightly larger than the other figures illustrated, and is top-center above the others, as though he is looming ominously above them and calling the tune.
I thought there were more than that, but a couple of examples I thought were in cartoon form were actually in the text.