Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on the latest overrun and schedule slip, and the shoddy reporting of it.
King Versus Burwell
SCOTUS has essentially repudiated itself. Many of the decisions from the left side of it have been nakedly political.
The JWST
It’s delayed again, and over budget. Again.
I would have canceled it years ago. It was a mistaken concept from the get go. For what we’ve spent on this program, we could have had orbital servicing capability, obviating the need for the origami, and even allowing servicing in situ.
The New National Space Strategy
Thoughts on it from Laura Montgomery, with its implications for Outer Space Treaty interpretation.
Vascular Health In Mice
Rejuvenation through dietary supplements.
I’m already taking NAD+.
Comey And Mueller
McCabe just made life tougher for them. As though it wasn’t tough enough. And note: Turley is a life-long Democrat.
At this point, I’d be happy to see McCabe, Comey, and many others do time in Club Fed. It’s probably too much to ask, though.
[Monday-afternoon update]
A higher loyalty to their inflated sense of virtue.
I think a lot of leftist heads are going to explode when Horowitz’s report comes out, and they’re not even anticipating it, continuing to focus on the Trump/Russia chimera.
Male Cyborgs
#ProTip: If you want to try one of these, you are not a male heterosexual. You are bisexual, and have been behaving as het to get along in society.
I don’t have zero interest in this. I have extreme negative interest in this.
[Update a while later]
No one who describes themselves as “bi-curious” is heterosexual, by definition. Articles like this annoy me in the extreme, because they promote the nonsense that everyone is gender and sexuality fluid.
[Monday-morning update]
The case of the missing link has been solved.
Justice-Department Standards
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that Mueller’s investigation flouts them.
The Iran “Deal”
Goodbye, and good riddance.
If Obama was your defense attorney, he’d plead a life sentence for jaywalking, and call it a “deal.”
Doves worry that the elevation of Pompeo makes conflict between the United States and Iran more likely. They get it backward. We are already in a conflict with Iran, one that Iran has been winning. It was the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran that gave it the resources and opportunity to sow chaos and undermine American interests throughout Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere. What Pompeo can do is shift the conflict into terrain of our choosing and decide it on our terms.
Yup.
The Deep Space Network
Shannon Stirone has a nice essay on the history and state of affairs, and Congress’s skewed space-budget priorities.
I think the future of deep-space comm will be lasers, and it may be provided commercially.