Clark Lindsey says that NASA's R&D priorities are exactly reversed.

But seed corn is so filling and yummy. Next winter is pretty far off. We'll think of something.

The 'seed corn' analogy is rather flawed, since seed corn is a short term investment. You plant it the next year, after all.

As for the complaints about short changing ISS science in favor of ESAS: does it really matter? Neither is likely to return very much. Science was the rationalization for ISS, the fig leaf, not the true justification. We're just seeing that being admitted.

Agreed. I've been trying to find some substantial research that has been conducted on ISS and can't. I don't count studying the long term effects of space flight on humans. It’s like saying I’m going to Africa to study what it’s like to be in Africa. The Russians did that one to death with Mir anyway.

With the amount of money spent on that thing the journals should be filled with significant papers. I would have loved to have .001% of that money for my research.

http://www.space.com/news/051116_aas_commercial.html

Talks about commercial services to ISS...
(ISS==International Spending Spree)

Jim Muncy just wrote this, at spacepolitics:

This is why I have said for four months now that the NewSpace community needs to focus on ensuring that Griffin really can deliver this market opportunity to us, and on our delivering for NASA, and not get distracted with fights over CEV/CLV/HLLV.