Where’s the next Slanket?

We’re still good at inventing excuses: An influential economist writes in a new book that America’s most innovative days have passed, along with the economic growth that resulted.

Guess we should have realized we had reached the pinnacle of American innovation once the George Foreman Grill was unveiled.

Right stuff: Herald film critic Robert Horton gives three stars to the new documentary, “The Last Man on the Moon,” about Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to step foot on the lunar surface. It’s a little jarring to see the man who drove a moon rover now behind the wheel of an SUV in Houston.

Not only has it been 44 years since the last moon shot, Cernan’s got about 950,000 frequent flyer miles he can’t do anything with.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1616, Galileo Galilei met with a Roman Inquisition official who ordered him to abandon the heretical concept that the earth revolved around the sun.

The cardinal also ordered Galileo to stop all that nonsense about human-caused climate change.

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