Boy, talk about egregious overuse and abuse of a metaphor (Michigan football fans only).

Joe Pelton has an editorial over at space.com about space policy. It contains the usual justifications (we need to save ourselves from the asteroids, etc.), but while I agree that there are questions that have to be asked, I’m underwhelmed by his:

Why explore space and why send humans into space?

Why does NASA spend the money it does?

Why does NASA use the resources it has the way it does?

What is NASA?s role in terms of education, health care, energy and job creation?

Why is there not more international cooperation in space activities?

Should the U.S. government, at all levels, not realize it needs to do a better job telling us why space and space research, exploration and applications are key?

Why the focus on NASA? This needs to be framed much broader–what is the role of the government, and of the private sector?

And what’s the big deal about international cooperation? Why is this apparently a desirable goal, in and of itself? There’s no good reason for it to be. We should cooperate if it makes sense, not just for cooperation’s sake.

Go read Lileks.

Go read Lileks.

Go read Lileks.

As expected, it looks like the only thing “sexed up” about the British government’s dossier was the BBC story about it…

[Update on Friday morning]

Via Instapundit, Brendan O’Neill says that Blair’s critics were the real spinners. I’d actually be embarrassed to claim that I was “duped” by such a supposedly incompetent government, just as the Dems should be ashamed to be continually outwitted by the retarded monkey in the White House, but I guess when you hunger for power, you have no shame…

…by getting on an airplane.

I’m flying from SFO down to LAX this morning. I expect that I’ll cheat death and whatever perverse form of Allah our enemies worship once again. More posting later.

[Update at 11 AM PDT]

Landed safely and am back home, as expected.

Up yours, Islamonazis…

…by getting on an airplane.

I’m flying from SFO down to LAX this morning. I expect that I’ll cheat death and whatever perverse form of Allah our enemies worship once again. More posting later.

[Update at 11 AM PDT]

Landed safely and am back home, as expected.

Up yours, Islamonazis…

…by getting on an airplane.

I’m flying from SFO down to LAX this morning. I expect that I’ll cheat death and whatever perverse form of Allah our enemies worship once again. More posting later.

[Update at 11 AM PDT]

Landed safely and am back home, as expected.

Up yours, Islamonazis…

A Springfield, MO newspaper has dropped Doonesbury, due to reader feedback.

“Doonesbury” was the most reviled strip, with 1,133 of our voters ranking it in the three they hate most.

Now, if they’d just pick up Day By Day…