Transterrestrial Musings http://www.transterrestrial.com/ en-us Progress After I got fed up and went to bed last night, I got up this morning and fixed my individual... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/progress_6.html They Must Be Doing It Wrong The head of the UK "Lap Dancer's Association" says that lap dances are not s3xually stimulating. Well, all right then.... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/they_must_be_do.html The POR Recession The unending (and infuriating) irony of this election will be that the Democrats won this election by first tanking the... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/the_por_recessi.html The Coming Health-Care Bailout Paul Hsieh (M.D.) has some thoughts on the inevitable issues with "universal health care."... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/the_coming_heal.html We Know What We Like Lileks has a meditation on modern art: It's not the humanism that ruined art, it was humanism that divorced itself... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/we_know_what_we.html Another Test Post I think I may have made a breakthrough in finding the problem with the timeouts. [Update] Nope. Or at least... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/another_test_po.html Change I Can Believe In It's looking like Gates is going to stay at the Pentagon. I think that's good news from a space perspective,... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/change_i_can_be.html How To Get To The Moon ...without heavy lift. Jon Goff lays out a potential lunar architecture. I don't think that a lunar orbit is practical... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/how_to_get_to_t.html Space Policy Advice to the Obama Transition Team Block grants. It's time for the Federal Government to pass the baton. California's current GDP is approaching the GDP of... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/space_policy_ad.html Slow Posting I got up early today and had an eye exam (still have two functional ones). They were dilated in the... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/slow_posting_1.html A User-Hostile Service As one can surmise from the previous test posts, I've been trying (after three quarters of a year) to fix... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/a_user_hostile.html Another Test... Trying to debug Movable Type...... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/another_test.html Testing Just want to see how this test post goes...... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/testing_2.html Can Hillary! Be SECSTATE? She may be Constitutionally ineligible. Sometimes commenter Jane Bernstein notes via email that Article 1, Section 6 clearly states that:... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/can_hillary_be.html It's Alan Stern Day First, over at the Gray Lady, he has an editorial on NASA's cost-overrun culture: ...the Mars Science Laboratory is only... http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/11/its_alan_stern.html