50 years ago today, Star Trek premiered as a tv show. This is significant in my life because I met my wife when she was reading a Deep Space 9 book (DS9 was one of the Trek spinoffs for you non-geeks out there) in the lunch room at work. For a geek like me, seeing a woman reading a Trek novel is an automatic conversation starter. So without Trek, I might not have met my wife, had kids, etc.
WTSP:
While the episodes in the article above are a good start, I would recommend watching the entire series. If you have Netflix, you can even watch it in HD, which I found to be a real treat. In one episode, there is a scene where two red-shirted guards walk in, one wearing black pants and the other in navy blue pants. The color quality of tv in the 1960's wouldn't have picked up the difference, but HD does!
Just for the record, my favorite Trek episode is "The City on the Edge of Forever", which answers the old philosophical question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"
That is what made Star Trek great: It was a modern day allegory, set in the future,
In other news...
Fox News:
The House Oversight Committee released an email exchange Wednesday between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in which he advised her on the use of personal email.It seems clear that Powell could have potentially blurred the lines between his State Department email and his private email. If he was carrying on conversations with foreign leaders on his personal email, that is public business, and should have been preserved. That is the law.
The exchange between Clinton and Powell took place two before the start of tenure as secretary of state. According to The Wall Street Journal, Powell told Clinton that he used a personal computer to conduct government business and took steps to ensure his digital correspondence wasn’t “going through the State Department servers.”
Powell said he had "a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line ... so I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers. I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts."
The emails were cited in the FBI’s notes about the possibility that Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information during her time at the State Department. The Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI quoted some, but not all, of the conversations between Powell and Clinton.
However, none of this excuses what Clinton did, especially because:
Clinton told federal authorities that she didn’t follow Powell’s guidance, even though she used a private email account to handle government business. FBI Direct James Comey recommended no charges should be brought against Clinton, but said that she had been “extremely careless” with classified documents.If Clinton isn't charged, you can't even begin to consider charges against Powell.
Speaking of the Clinton...
RealClearPolitics:
One nice thing about the RealClearPolitics page linked above is how it combines all the current polling results. What this shows is that Hillary Clinton's lead is evaporating: Currently, she is only leading Donald Trump by 2 points.
With the Media firmly in Clinton's pocket, how can this be? Because the Media no longer controls the political conversation. With social media and blogs like this one, plus more conservative Media news sources out there, the Media has lost the battle.
It looks like Clinton's support is bleeding away to both Trump and Libertarian Gary Johnson, who is starting to pick up some steam, with 3 of the last 6 polls in double digits. But he still has a long way to go.
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