Sunday Roast: Happy Birthday, Pale Blue Dot!

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I’m only a day late, but it’s been 25 years (yesterday) since the famous photo was taken by Voyager 1.

I don’t know about all y’all, but every time I hear Carl Sagan talking about “the only home we’ve ever known,” I weep like a baby.  It’s so hopeful, but, at the same time, it’s a severe reality check.

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21 thoughts on “Sunday Roast: Happy Birthday, Pale Blue Dot!”

  3. George Will: (On Obama’s Buzzfeed video) “If narcissism were oil, this president would be Saudi Arabia.”

    Uh, George. On this issue, your pot is quite a bit blacker than Obama’s kettle.

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  6. How do you deal with a Republican Party when half of them think the President’s request for a new AUMF doesn’t go far enough, and the other half think it goes too far?

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