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: Political Commentary
Vulcan
An interview with Tory Bruno about his new rocket.
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.
A Space Nuclear Reactor
…has passed its initial tests. This is one of the most useful things I’ve seen to come out of NASA in a while. Just think what we could be doing if we were doing more of this kind of thing, instead of building a giant rocket and capsule.
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]
