I'm not defending Akin, but believe me, there were neanderthals in Congress in '69 too. Probably more than today. Hell, Nixon was in the White House when the Eagle landed. We were mired in Vietnam. Every single astronaut was a white male. Don't romanticize 1969.

Don't romanticize any year or decade, even. Just keep pushing for the best!

Stem cell research, IMO, is just as important as space research, even though I fell in love with astronomy as a child.

I watched the Moon landing. I cried last night. I just think that, as bad as things seem today, the idea that they were somehow better in 1969 is just wrong.

Thanks for the perspective.

over the Hollywood sign, highway overpasses that should be every where.