…the hype must, instead.
So far, the biggest “denier” seems to be Gaia herself.
The Future Of Commercial Space
An interview with Michael Lopez-Alegria.
As I note in comments there, NASA is not the only orbital customer. Bigelow has long expressed an interest in purchasing flights when they’re available at an affordable price.
The Washington Post
The media-bias mess continues.
Where is the ombudsman? Or better yet, where is Jeff Bezos?
Chicago Is Not Russia
The community organizer against the ex-KGB agent.
Russian’s Next Conquest
Brighton Beach is in Putin’s sights.
Incommunicado
We went up to the the California central coast for the weekend. Likely light blogging until Sunday night or Monday.
The Individual Mandate
…seems to be pretty pointless.
Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
…because the West is weak.
And that’s just the way the Democrats, from Madeleine NotSobright to Barack Obama, seem to like it.
Hey, Barack? The 1930s called. They want the UK's foreign policy back. http://t.co/4oUqVKMKxt
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 20, 2014
[Update a couple minutes later]
Putin was changing the map while Europe was fixing the climate.
What fools.
Also, when weak nations provoke stronger ones. Because part of strength is the will to use what power you have.
[Update mid-afternoon]
“It’s like they’re living on another planet.”
As he notes, if Obama’s unwilling to take on the Sierra Club, who should believe that he’ll take on Putin?
[Bumped]
[Late afternoon update]
The real Cold Warriors understood that crushing the Evil Empire of Communism required us to take into account the interests of Russia as a nation. The elder statesmen who won the Cold War, including Henry Kissinger (whose opening to China flanked the Soviet Union), are trying in vain to inject a note of sanity into the clown show that passes for American foreign policy on both sides of the aisle. The Republican mainstream mistook Tahrir Square for Lexington Common, and then mistook Maidan for Tahrir Square. If only we were rougher and tougher, it is claimed, Crimea would be free today. That is just plain stupid; there is no possible state of the world in which Crimea would not be Russian. We had some ability to influence the terms under which it would be Russian, and we chose the worst possible course of action, namely open hostility combined with impotent posturing.
We have an elite that lives in its own virtual-reality world circumscribed by a failed ideology, unable to learn from its past mistakes (or even to admit that they were mistakes) and condemned to repeat the same blunders again and again. They posture at Putin the way a small boy stands up to the zoo lion behind cage bars. The lion, though, is not entirely without alternatives, as the alarming case of Iran should make clear.
It’s folly on every front.
The Obama Scandal Bracket
Jon Gabriel has filled it out.
The “Selling Space” Debate
Jeff Foust has six takeaways.