Sheila Jackson Lee Named Head Of Harvard Astronomy Department

Babylon Bee ^

[bimboeruption]

An appropriate job for the Queen of the Space Cadets.

[Sacajaweau]

My face turns to a scowl...causing deep lines on my brow...and than I see it....THE BEE...I take a deep breath and the lines on my brow recede and the the lines of my Cheshire Cat Smile take over.

Whew...that headline really got to me....

[M Kehoe]

LOL.

5.56mm

[Mlheureux]

She would be a great snake oil astronomer.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“She literally watched a flag be planted on the moon”

I think the Bee author is confused about her 1997 question asking if the Mars Pathfinder succeeded in taking pictures of the American flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, the Harvard Board of Trustees is also a gaseous body...just like the moon.

Only an astronomer like Jackson-Lee would appreciate this.

[stanne]

She previously sat on the House’s Science, Space and Technology Committee

[Deo volente]

A member of the House of Representatives. What kind of people live in that district?!

[Jamestown1630]

I bet most of the kids in that class the other day knew she was completely ignorant about the ‘solar system’.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Shelia Jackson Lee joins Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Mary Anna Palmer Draper, Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Anna Winlock, and Florence Cushman as members of "Pickering's Harem"

When is Dava Sobel going to write Shelia Jackson Lee's Biography?

[RoosterRedux]

Her efforts in spreading science to school-kids is what must have tipped the scales in her favor.

Space cadet: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tells schoolkids that moon is a ‘planet’ and ‘made up mostly of gases’

Only a racist would disagree with SJL's scientific positions.

[ArcadeQuarters]

This isn’t enough diversity. We need Hank Johnson to head geology.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I believe this to be an actual possibility.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! I was ‘Second Runner Up’ for the job. The evening of the Eclipse I ran to Beau and said, ‘Now they’ve done it! Since the Eclipse, there’s no MOON anymore!’

He informed me that it was still there but it was a New Moon and not visible tonight. :)

[sasquatch]

Best of the week!

[telescope115]

SURE! WHY NOT? Lol!

[RoosterRedux]

She full of moon gas and dumb as a box of space rocks.

[mikelets456]

I guess we should elect Hank Johnson to the head of “island buoyancy” restructuring....

[KittyKares]

LOL! My first thought was a DEI hire. Then I realized it was the Bee. But it’s only a matter of time.