Last year Mrs. BA and I went to Canada to catch a cruise to Alaska as part of James Randi’s Amaz!ng Adventure II. The day before, though, we went out with Fraser and his wife for a day on the town in Vancover. What I saw there horrified and disturbed me, as I witnessed first hand just how deeply my country’s culture has infected Canadia.

On behalf of my country, I apologize.

The newest Carnival of Space is up at my newest fave astroblog, Orbiting Frog. Lots of links to good spacey posts!

Update: Atlantis launched into orbit today, as I was somewhere on I70 heading home.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to launch into space at 2:45 in the afternoon Eastern time. However, the weather is iffy, with a front coming through (which will make my own plane ride home from Florida a bit bumpy, I imagine). Also, the launch window is a very narrow ten minutes, so the odds of the launch are pretty low.

Normally I would live-Twitter the launch, but I might not be home yet from the airport (especially if US Airways, once again, gives me a metaphorical colonoscopy as they did on the way here). If the launch is delayed, I’ll do my best to cover it live when it does eventually liftoff.