Eric Berger thinks the company needs to focus on Falcon 9.
I’m not sure that what happened yesterday can be attributed to lack of focus, but we won’t know until we find out what happened.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Latest Clinton Corruption
I know you’re as surprised as I am to learn the Clinton’s used taxpayer dollars to subsidize their personal slush fund aka the Clinton Global Initiative.
Why Didn’t She Destroy All Of The Benghazi Emails?
Because in addition to being corrupt liars, utterly indifferent to national security, she and her team are incompetent dolts. But that shouldn’t be news to anyone who’s been paying attention for the past quarter century. Which is unfortunately far too many people.
Is there any point at which the Democrats finally come to realize that she and they just aren’t up to the job? They can’t even do a decent cover up.
The University Of Chicago And Free Speech
Ken White has a better version of the letter to incoming frosh.
Yes. Despite the cries from the Left about “discrimination!!!11!,” freedom of association is important. But it doesn’t give you the right to censor a classroom or campus talk.
Getting Over “Apolloism”
I’m heading back to California tomorrow, for the first time in about six weeks (the longest I’ve been away from home since I moved back in 2009), but meanwhile, my long-awaited piece in The New Atlantis is on line.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sorry, that’s just a preview, unless you’re a subscriber. The full piece will be free on line in the future, but I’m not sure when.
Was It Between Golf Rounds?
Barack Obama sends a memo to Louisiana officials to not discriminate in the distribution of federal funds.
This is the worst natural disaster since Sandy. If Bush was on the links during it, imagine the howls from the media.
Which brings me to another sore point. I think the demand that presidents should show up to a disaster to “feel peoples’ pain” is emotional and stupid. It’s not part of a president’s job description, and like many terrible traditions, it was started by Bill Clinton, after the idiotic media outrage over the GHWB response to Andrew. But I just wish that the media would be consistent, and not hypocritical, in modulating their outrage depending on which political party is in the White House.
Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment
I’ve been saying on Twitter that I’ve been waiting for years for a Republican to call out the Democrats on not just their historic, but current cynical racism and oppression of the black community that turns out to so reliably vote for them. I’m just sad that it took Donald Trump to do it. FWIW, I’ve never accused Trump of being either a racist or a bigot, but I do think that he is cynical himself in allowing racists and bigots to think he is.
The Hacked Soros Documents
This would be huge news if it involved the evil Koch brothers, but it’s Soros, so who cares?
Aging
…is finally starting to be treated as the disease that it is.
This has been a philosophical battle, but we’re finally making headway. I hope it’s not too late for me.
SLS Costs
NASA is basically admitting that it will be a minimum (if they can ever get to two flights a year) of a billion dollars per flight on an ongoing basis, even ignoring DDT&E. For a 130 tonne payload, that’s over $3500/lb, more than three times the cost of Falcon Heavy.
[Update a while later]
Contrast with this story: The coming space race between Internet billionaires.