Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts on potential upcoming (and unsurprising, since it doesn’t really matter whether or not it actually flies) schedule slips:
…it means that it will have literally taken NASA two decades to build and fly a single manned Orion capsule, beginning when George Bush ordered the construction of the Crew Exploration Vehicle in January 2004.
Plenty of time to take it behind the barn and put it out of its misery.
Yes, we could use them both here and on Mars.
She had to be “sobered up.” Hey, no problem as long as she’s ready for that 3 AM phone call. Let’s make her president!
And then there’s this:
Hillary Clinton has been photographed drinking alcohol on numerous occasions, and has promised to consume a large amount of “adult beverages” if elected president.
She is also, according to reports, reluctant to drink water, a common method used by individuals trying to “sober up.”
See, now here’s where Marco Rubio would clearly have been a better choice.
Popehat hilariously illustrates why lawyers’ jobs are probably secure, for now.
It’s over. Russia won:
Putin and his ministers have acted cynically and cunningly in Syria, to good effect for Russia. However, it would be wrong to portray Moscow as strategic geniuses here. It’s much more about the staggering, unprecedented foreign policy incompetence of President Obama and his White House than anything else. Time and again, Obama and his coterie of self-proclaimed foreign policy masterminds on his National Security Council have been bested by the Russians, who view them with undisguised contempt.
And justly so.
Nine of them he didn’t mention.
They’re only not scandals because the media was in the tank for him (as well as her) and refused to properly report them. As Iowahawk once tweeted, the purpose of journalism is to cover stories. With a pillow. Until they stop moving.
Loony leftist blames the party that didn’t vote for the legislative atrocity.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: David Harsanyi: “When Will Liberals Answer For Obamacare’s Failures? Is there any accountability in politics for being completely wrong? Not for defenders of Obamacare.”
#ProTip: They’re not “liberals.” There is nothing liberal about them.
Jeffrey Toobin doesn’t know the slightest thing about his legal legacy.
Analysis: Zero Pinocchios.
…and we’re not going to stop now.
But don’t say there’s voter fraud!
[Yes, I know I linked this piece yesterday, but I want it to get more love from the search engines]
…that doesn’t need batteries. Seems like it would have applications for the outer solar system.
I have to say, after reading decades of science fiction, that it does feel like the future is arriving. For better or worse.
[Update a while later]
3-D printed magnets.