…at The Economist.
This is the first time that I’ve seen the aircraft called a “Stratolaunch.” I wonder if the correspondent knows something we don’t, or is just making a false inference? Also, I’m a little surprised that the editors don’t know the difference between a hanger and a hangar. Unless it’s a British spelling.
…of Barack Obama. And yet many continue to defend him.
…and what won’t? The only problem with the analogy is that I never purposefully go to a coffee shop, because I don’t drink coffee. Starbucks would go bust in a world full of me.
Hardest hit: Tom Friedman.
A rare event, in which he rips the WaPo for media malpractice in reporting on Solyndra.
I know, you’re as shocked as I am.
There it went. It’s a sociopolitical tragedy that is destroying a beautiful place.
I have some questions for Mitt Romney over at PJMedia. By the way, today is the forty-third anniversary of Apollo 8’s circuit of the moon, when we won the space race.
And it was (again) in the third stage, but it doesn’t seem to be common with the failure a few weeks ago. There is one common cause, though — it is a product of the Russian space program, which seems to be having ongoing problems, and Congress continues to fiddle with SLS while it burns, while underfunding the only program that can eliminate our dependence on it.
[UPdate late morning]
A combustion-chamber burn through? If so, was this a manufacturing, or processing problem?
Obama has achieved his goal of higher energy costs.
This should be a powerful campaign theme next year: “Obama got what he wanted. Did you?”