The tragedy of the welfare state.
But don’t accuse them of wanting to create a large dependency class, with accompanying votes.
Space Transports
What is the future of reusable launch vehicles?
It should be clear by now that it’s hopeless to expect the government to do it.
Centennial Challenges
It’s dead, Jim. Give it to FAA, and let Davidian run it again.
The New Science Committee Chair
…will be Lamar Smith.
Sigh. I wonder who will be the chairman of the space subcommittee?
Someone should point out to him that the SLS is eating the budget for a lot of JSC programs, and that it isn’t needed to launch Orion or to go beyond LEO.
Sandra Fluke
She’s the perfect person to represent 2012:
She’s got it all: The “Generation Cupcake” inadequacy (“So what if she didn’t earn the award — give it to her, anyway!); the “Occupod” sense of entitlement (“Somebody should be buying my condoms, and it ain’t gonna be me!”); and, of course, the liberal detachment from reality (“There’s a war on women! We’re being oppressed! Just ask Hillary Clinton, Condi Rice and Oprah!”).
Then there’s the economic angle. One could argue that the icon of the failing Obama economy is the college grad with a worthless degree under his arm and a bed in his mom’s basement.
Time magazine gives us Sandra Fluke, with a bachelor’s degree in (no joke) Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, no marketable skills, and still on the academic track, living on the largess of others.
I’m not trying to be mean to Sandra Fluke. Unlike Rush Limbaugh I make no comment on her personal life or sexual proclivities.
But I also didn’t — and would never — put this unaccomplished 30-something on the “Person of the Year” list for publicly whining about paying her own bills.
And if I were Ms. Fluke, I’d be embarrassed by Time’s selection. I’d be pointing out the people who’ve actually made some impact— maybe Fidelity’s Abigail Johnson, or Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for insisting on attending school.
Ah, but I’m not Sandra Fluke, who used her “Person of the Year” moment to complain, in a tweet, about the “few women” nominated.
And you know how much I’d pay for an hour with her? I’d pay to not have to spend an hour with her.
Racism And Heterophobia
…in “higher” education. If I were a parent, I wouldn’t be wasting my money on thousands in tuition for this kind of nonsense.
Also related: the student debt bubble officially pops.
More Guns, Less Crime
Only the media morons are baffled by the notion. Must be something in the water in J-school.
It sort of reminds me of this headline at the Gray Lady a few years ago.
Kim Jong Un
Heh.
Today’s Questions For The President
There are still a lot of them. In fact, they seem to multiply as time goes on.
ObamaCare: Still Unpopular
…and still a mess:
It’s a situation no one anticipated when the Affordable Care Act was written. The law assumed states would create and operate their own exchanges, and set aside billions in grants for that purpose.
Why did the law assume that? Because, as Ramesh Ponnuru wrote back in October, “The law’s supporters . . . expected the health-care law to become more popular over time.” T’was ever thus, for blind optimism is Obamacare’s founding principle: If people understand it, they’ll like it; if Obama makes just one more speech about it, they’ll like it; if Congress passes it, they’ll like it; if HHS spends millions of dollars promoting it, they’ll like it; if the states are forced to implement it, they’ll like it. And so on and so forth. And yet…
This is why federalism was invented.