Note: I originally posted this entry on October 8, but quite a few people are saying that it won't load for them; they get errors or blank pages. The Hive Overmind has been notified, but in the meantime here is the post again. I hope you can see it! But if you're reading this note, you can see it, and if you can't read this note, then why am I sitting here talking to myself?
So a little while back, John McCain made an ill-advised crack about planetaria (that's the plural of planetarium), calling them "foolishness". It was ill advised because it raised the hackles of lots of science-loving folks, including those who want to -- gasp, horror! -- educate kids about astronomy and science. At the time I suspected it was just a wedge in which to attack Barack Obama, but his use of the word foolishness really caught ...
