…would most likely be wasted, just as much of NASA’s budget is now.
Category Archives: Business
The Private Sector
…isn’t doing just fine, Mr. President.
[Afternoon update]
Instapundit has a lot of links. This seems (appropriately) to have resulted in a firestorm of criticism of the economic ignoramus. I agree with John Hinderaker that it is redolent of his intrinsically socialist mindset.
[Update later afternoon]
What goes around, comes around.
This also points out just how incompetent McCain and his campaign were, compared to Romney.
And how not-so-brilliant the Obama team is/was. They were lucky. Their luck has run out, I think.
Cronyism Alert
The next farm bill. We’re still clearly a long way from either party taking spending and the deficit seriously.
“Free Enterprise”
I’m glad to see that Romney isn’t using the word “capitalism.” This is a much better formulation.
A Private Mars Expedition
At ISDC, Bob Zubrin actually invited me to give a talk on this subject at the Mars Society meeting in August. I accepted, but I still owe him an abstract. Speaking of whom, he has an editorial in the Washington Times about the need for property rights in space.
Sacred Republican Space Cows
Over at Open Market, I point out a way for Mitt Romney to demonstrate his secular cred, by coming out for cancellation of a program that benefits the home state of his church.
High-Speed Rail
Is California the death knell? Let’s hope so, at least for government-subsidized systems. I do think that an LA-Vegas run could make sense.
Up? Or Down?
The latest from Bill Whittle, with contrasting thoughts on Chris Hayes and Elon Musk.
Food Nannyism
Thoughts from Lileks on the new Puritans:
Let’s get one thing clear: when the TV talk-show people lavish praise on the idea, it has nothing to do with some abstract notion of the costs of obesity. They just don’t like fat people. Fat people, at best, are a rebuke their own finicky vanity – I look good, why can’t you? – and at the worst, aesthetically unpleasant. If they all went away, the trim pert types woudl miss them after a while, and realize that people no longer came pre-packaged in a style that made them easy to dismiss.
A thin woman with three children by three men who can’t get by is an object of concern. A fat women with two kids who can’t get by is a toad, and probably a smoker.
A culture that redefines food choices as moral issues will demonize the people who don’t share the tastes of the priest class. A culture that elevates eating to some holistic act of ethical self-definition – localvore, low-carbon-impact food, fair trade, artisanal cheese – will find the casual carefree choices of the less-enlightened as an affront to their belief system. Leave it to Americans to invent a Puritan strain of Epicurianism.
I do have to agree that sugar is bad for you. But people have a right to eat things that are bad for them. Until the rest of us are forced to pay for their health care, of course…
The Caravels Of Space
Stewart Money says that Dragon had introduced a new era of exploration. And space development.