WELL, DUH: Consumers pick home over flying: "Consumers chose not to take 41 million trips over the last 12 months because flying is too much of a hassle, according to a new Travel Industry Association study." Make something miserable, and people will be less inclined to do it. Go figure. But they were warned.

I MISSED THE "GALA DINNER" but Hugh Downs -- who was in on the founding of the National Space Institute, one of the National Space Society's predecessor organizations, back in 1973, got a lifetime achievement award.

SEX AND THE CITY: It's not just for women! "If you're a red-blooded American male, what's not to like in a movie about four good looking women running around New York City indulging their libidos?"

A contrary view here.

A LOOK AT TODAY'S New York crane collapse.

THE TELEGRAPH ON AMERICAN ACTIONS and European anti-Americanism. Europeans have been anti-American pretty consistently since America began, except for brief intervals where they needed us enough to (mostly) pretend otherwise. While politics and state-controlled media certainly play a role, it's mostly about moral preening and justification for low defense spending. Ultimately, this kind of thinking hurts Europe far more than America -- and will hurt Europe even more if America responds with isolationism.

OKAY, THE RECIPE SOUNDS YUMMY, but how many times do I have to explain that "barbecue" is not a synonym for "cooking out."

HERE'S A REPORT from my space media panel yesterday.

CHINA'S SPACE PROGRAM: I've got a report from the ISDC up over at Popular Mechanics.

JOHNATHAN PEARCE: "Boris Johnson, the new London mayor, has already decided it is time for some R&R and has gone on a yachting holiday in Turkey. Good for him. . . . In an ideal world, politicians would be on holiday 12 months a year."

THIS IS WHAT WE WANTED TO HAPPEN, RIGHT: People moving out of high-risk hurricane areas. It's not much of a change, though.

BAD TIMING? "America's presidential hopefuls are pushing government-heavy approaches to climate change — just as the rest of the world is rebelling against them."

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