No, you don’t win wars with “deals.” And trade wars are neithet “good” or “easy to win.”
Trump often doesn’t seem to recognize the nature of who he’s dealing with.
The New Launch Rules
“It’s almost as though the Russians or Chinese wrote them.”
ITAR was supported by the big companies, too, because they had the infrastructure to deal with it, while the upstarts didn’t.
Mueller’s “Dream Team”
…lost to the nobodies.
[Update a few minutes later]
Barr has bigger things to prosecute Comey for than leaking classified memos.
And Trey Gowdy dropped some bombshells over the weekend with Maria Bartiromo.
BE-4
Progress in testing it seems to be steady, and Bezos just sold another $1.8B of stock to support it and Blue Origin’s other goals.
A U.S. Space Force
Well, this is interesting. The Acting Secretary of the Air Force is advocating to amend Article X to create a U.S. Space Force as a separate service.
Newsmax
From what planet was this written?
The truth is, America already has a capable new rocket that dwarfs the capabilities of the Saturn V rockets that took our astronauts to the moon. The Space Launch System will be online and ready later this year.
…Real and robust competition pushes all participants to perform their best. But SpaceX has so far been able to avoid real competition. Without any real requirement that it ultimately succeed, SpaceX has been a technological failure, even while Musk has managed a public relations success and gotten paid based on his public relations campaign, more than actual accomplishment. To make it to Mars we must encourage real competition, not Elon Musk’s fake version of competition where he gets paid regardless of what he produces.
Sure, Jan.
[Update a while later]
I guess I needed a link for those last two words.
Yes, it was written by George Landrith.
The Religious Beliefs Of Ants
Lileks has a very strange mind.
Paul Krugman
Thoughts on his “most evil idea.”
I don’t know, I think there’s stiff competition for that. Also, my understanding is that a lot of the stuff he writes is prompted by his wife.
But yes, envy of the long-lived is just as sinful as envy of the wealthy.
Frankenstein
An insightful essay for the 21st century, on the 200th anniversary of the first modern science-fiction novel.
College
…does not make you a better person.
I’m reading a review copy of an interesting new book from Bob Zimmerman on the history of slavery in America. One of the points he makes is that one of the things that created the cultural environment for it was the nature of how the Cavaliers founded Virginia, with the class bias and denigration of physical labor they brought from England.