Category Archives: Media Criticism

Mark Whittington’s Tourette’s Syndrome

Isn’t it amusingly stupid how he is unable to write the phrase “commercial crew” without using the word “subsidy”?

What’s funniest of all, of course, is that he seems to actually believe that space policy will be a significant, or even debated issue in this election.

[Afternoon update]

Awwwww, isn’t that cute? Mark still fantasizes both that I have a “chain,” and that I ever “leap the length” of it. It seems to be one of his favorite expressions. That’s the autism, rather than the Tourette’s.

[Update on Tuesday morning]

I know what metaphors are, Mark. I was simply pointing out that your attempt at it was insane, and bore no resemblance to reality.

Irony Challenged On Space Commentary

Check out the comments over at my National Review piece. It’s almost as though some of the commenters are going out of their way to prove my thesis, by engaging in exactly the ignorant, straw-man behavior that opponents of the new policy have been for going on three years now. I love the notion that because I correct misstatements of fact, I am “attacking” the commenter. I especially love the latest insane redefinition of “subsidy” — that because SpaceX didn’t reinvent every single wheel in its vehicles, instead building on technology developed over the past decades, that it has been “subsidized” by NASA for decades.