Man, Moment, Machine -- History Channel - Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 10:00 p.m. (EDT)- October 16, 2006 Ok, I admit it -- I'm still a bit of a NASA junkie. It goes back to remembering the early days of Mercury and Apollo aka the heyday of spaceflight, when we actually knew the astronauts' names. Yes, I was a space geek, and so I remember that April morning when Apollo 13 blasted off on still another visit to the moon - the second since Apollo 11 less than a year earlier. I was 14 and remember to this day Walter Cronkite's words as the rocket rose into the sky, "It's a beauty. It's another...http://www.billoglesby.com/newspick/2006/10/man-moment-machine-history-channel.html Moyers on America -- PBS - Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - 9:00 p.m. (EDT)- October 3, 2006 When Bill Moyers is on, you need to be ready to listen. No, you need to be ready to LISTEN. Moyers violates all the contemporary rules in his specials. They aren't glitzy. And not only is HE not glitzy, he's not particularly energetic either. Instead, Moyers is thoughtful, deliberate and - the usual word attributed to him - cerebral. In this mini-series of three parts, the former press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson looks at crime, God and the Internet. It's not guns, gays and God, but...http://www.billoglesby.com/newspick/2006/10/moyers-on-america-pbs-wednesday.html |