Target has decided to make itself into Che-mart. Head over to the real Che-mart–it’s much better.
As one of the tee shirts says, “Che–fooling middle-class white kids since 1967.”
Is There An MT Guru In The House?
Does anyone have any idea why the words “de-vice” and “st0ck” (spelled properly) break the script? It’s hard to even debug a broken script.
Thoughts On Cow Flatulence
From Lileks:
The idea of people sitting at home in sweatpants watching a big TV while shoveling in the Haagen-Daz mortifies the social engineers; they can practically feel the planet wobble on its axis from the cumulative weight of so much freedom and prosperity.
The preferred model for a nice, controlled population is a dense city where your small apartment has a tiny fridge st0cked with bean curd molded into pleasant, food-like shapes. Trains take you to your job, which is either building trains, fixing trains, designing public service posters for trains, cleaning trains or writing software to operate trains. Once a week you’ll pull on your best taupe-hued hemp jumpsuit and take the train to the biweekly Culture Expo to hear something held up to enlightened ridicule (anything’s game, except Islam and Global Warming).
It may sound like hell itself, but at least it’s sustainable.
Makes me want to get in the SUV and head to McDonald’s. And I don’t even like McDonald’s.
Useless Platitudes
Cliff May comments on the inanity of the notion that the problem in Iraq are caused by resentment of foreign occupation:
So when Iraq day laborers are mass-murdered by a suicide bomber, when teachers are taken from their classrooms, lined up and shot
Keeping The Money At Home
Apparently, Canada is reassessing its future in space:
The federal government has turned down a request by Canada’s space industry to support a contract that would have allowed the companies to build the European Space Agency’s Mars surface rover, CBC News has learned.
The decision stunned the companies and has left the ESA scrambling to find a new partner, as no European firm is adequately prepared to match the technical abilities of Canadian firms to build its ExoMars rover.
This points out once again that government space programs are first and foremost jobs programs. If having the best robotics (which at least in theory might translate into the best science) were really important to the Europeans, they’d simply send CSA the money, and hire them as a contractor. But space development funds are not allowed to cross borders. ESA insists that each government get an amount of work on its projects in proportion to each member nation’s contributions. Now they’ll have to spend a lot of money for one of the European partners to get up to speed, and it will result in schedule delays, cost overruns, and risk of failure, all because (at least) when it comes to space, they don’t believe in comparative advantage.
We will make much more progress on the high frontier when it starts to pay for itself, and management decisions can be made independently of politics.
Bye Bye To COTS?
I haven’t talked much about this, but apparently, as things stand now, NASA is not going to get the funding increase it anticipated for 2007, because the federal government is apparently going to be funded on a continuing resolution.
This could mean a new bloodletting to continue to fund the Constellation-related programs. Under those circumstances, I won’t be shocked to see COTS put on the block. Millennium Challenges are probably at risk as well.
The Strange Mind Of James Lileks
On the Pillsbury Doughboy:
…a few weeks ago I made disparaging remarks about the Green Lantern; this was not meant to disparage his creator, who has died
It’s The Culture, Stupid
A good (and depressing) description of the problem that we face (and have faced since day one) in Iraq.
It’s The Culture, Stupid
A good (and depressing) description of the problem that we face (and have faced since day one) in Iraq.
It’s The Culture, Stupid
A good (and depressing) description of the problem that we face (and have faced since day one) in Iraq.