The latest on overruns and slips from the GAO. As I often note, overruns and slips on a program like this and SLS are a feature, not a bug. At least until they finally get canceled.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Big Mac Diet
This is quite a record.
The unhealthiest thing about a Big Mac is the bun. This story doesn't say what else he ate: https://t.co/zFggBxH6rm
If he skipped the fries and soft drinks, a Big Mac diet per se wouldn't be that big a problem.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 6, 2018
Mueller’s Investigation
Forty questions about it. Meanwhile, Mueller just had a really bad day in court.
[Update Monday morning]
Will there be a plea reversal in the Flynn case? If so, it could be more bad news for Team Mueller.
Big Government And Bad Science
Probably not news to my readers, but here’s a Reason interview with Nina Teicholz on how government recommendations have made America fat.
The Clinton (Crime) Family Foundation
Time to declare it the biggest charity fraud ever.
Boeing Plans
Alan Boyle reports on a speech from the CEO. And no, CST will not be the first private space vehicle to go to LEO.
The Internet’s Creators
Their regrets on how they wrecked it.
And thoughts from James Lileks.
I am often snarky on Twitter, but I don’t have any trouble not being profane or cruel.
Joy Reid
Eric Wemple is uncharacteristically (but appropriately) vicious to his fellow journalists.
The Falcon Heavy
Boeing says it’s “too small.”
130-ton (tonne?) payload for SLS is the 65,000 pounds of the Shuttle, in that it will never happen.https://t.co/DdKWcbVD9U
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) May 1, 2018
Happy May Day
…better known as victims of communism day. And it’s a tragic condemnation of our “educational” system that young people (and too many old people) don’t understand how horrific this philosophy is.
[Afternoon update]
[Late-afternoon update]
Sarah Hoyt (who would know): A remembrance of May Days past.
[Wednesday-morning update]
