Jon Stewart tells @camanpour that he didnt vote. He just moved, he says, doesnt know where to go to vote.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 4, 2014
@StephenGutowski @jaketapper @camanpour If only there were some comedic television news program to do a funny rant about this.
— Casey Mattox (@CaseyMattoxADF) November 4, 2014
I respond to Jeffrey Kluger’s Branson bashing, over at The New Atlantis.
[Update a few minutes later]
Meghan McArdle says that of course space tourism will continue. The notion that a fatality in a flight test would destroy an industry is pretty stupid.
Also, nothing has changed in the past decade: Alex Tabarrok still doesn’t understand the difference between orbital and suborbital flight, or between flight test and operations.
It’s basically collapsed. But of course, tomorrow is its sell-by date anyway.
I’m sure that you’re as shocked as I am that Sir Richard’s statement on Saturday is at variance with reality. I think the technical business term for this is “fiasco.” And I’m angry that it has so tainted the industry, not to mention given the FAA an excuse to regulate, if they wish to.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The real problem is “bad business.”
We may be in for a rough ride.
And then there’s this:
The article, which includes a senior administration official gloating that Obama successfully pressured Netanyahu to avoid launching a military strike on Iran back when it could still have stopped the radical Islamic regime’s nuclear program, signaled that Obama has Iran’s back.
It continues to amaze me that any American Jews continue to support this man. Or Americans who care at all about our national security.
I speculated a few weeks ago that if the Democrats lost the Senate, the long knives (probably led by the egomaniacal Chuck Schumer) would be out for him. John Fund has a similar speculation.
Some old, but relevant thoughts on risk and safety, from Wayne Hale.
…he will become more powerful than you imagine.
I’m not a Bill Maher fan, but at least, unlike much of the left, he’s willing to be an equal-opportunity religion basher.
It’s about to start.