Tax hikes, not spending cuts.
The Tsarnyevs
Found on Facebook, and just what I’ve been thinking.
Nutrition Junk Science
Gee, this guy acts a lot like some climate “scientists.”
It’s Not About The Data Mining
…it’s that we can’t trust these people.
For instance, how hard would it be to search the metadata to find out who attended Tea Party rallies?
[Update late morning]
Hey, gun grabbers? This is why we don’t want you to know what guns we have. If you don’t have a list, we don’t have to worry about you abusing it.
Detroit’s Van Gogh
…would be better off in LA:
Rather than an offense against art, a properly structured sale would represent a public-spirited update of how the art came to Detroit and other U.S. cities in the first place: as a way of providing liquidity to Europeans in need of cash. “The second world war has opened up an opportunity such as may never come again,” the DIA’s director wrote unabashedly in 1948. “Great private collections which have been held intact for a hundred years or more are being broken up.” Detroit is like an aristocratic estate forced to adjust to changing times. It can’t marry an heiress, but it might find some lucratively appreciative new homes for some of its heirlooms.
This is the just consequence of terrible voters’ decision and awful city management.
Debating An Anti-Humanist
Bob Zubrin has a report. Sounds like a good time was had by all, except for Cafaro.
Asymmetric Outrage
I have some thoughts on the scandals over at PJMedia.
Back From Colorado
The good news is that I’ve landed in California. The bad news is that we were diverted to San Diego due to some sort of problem at LAX.
More anon.
…a few minutes later.
OK, the plan is to refuel and then head up the coast. We’ll see how long that takes.
Update at 15:15 PDT. Heading home from LAX.
Stratolaunch And OSC
Stewart Money has some thoughts on the implications of the culmination of the courtship.
I’ve never really believed that the true goal of this program was a significant cost reduction. I think that the only requirement for which it makes sense is rapid-response single-orbit rendezvous.
But one other point that Stewart doesn’t mention. In the original rollout, they declared that the goal was (at least eventually) human missions. I don’t know how many people are going to be willing to go to orbit on a two-stage solid, particularly given OSC’s record. I know that I wouldn’t be, particularly given the more attractive alternatives (SpaceX/Dragon and perhaps whatever XCOR eventually comes up with). I wonder if this is the final nail in the coffin of the original cover story.
Blue Origin
Clark Lindsey has collected the tweets from this morning’s session at the #NSRC2013.
Bottom line — they still won’t announce anything resembling a schedule. “We will fly when we are ready.” As opposed to everyone else, who will fly before they are…