Earth Moon Full Policy

In The Shape of Things to Come.This Mercury Messenger robot snapshot of Earth and Moon in the brightness of reflected sunlight makes me relax for the scale of our ambition to describe what is and how it got here.  Also makes me snicker at the closed-mindedness of the Washington ops.  Take a breath, guys.  Look up!  What's your policy noise to that?  What is POTUS and his evasiveness to that.  The part of the Obama administration that grinds me the most each week is the arrogant blindness to NASA and the uses of NASA.  The Obama team does not comprehend how NASA is the stuff that dreams are made of.  Sure, NASA is pork.  But it is well worth it pork, to…
By John Batchelor | September 1, 2010 2:47 PM (4)

Amateur Zero Hour Oval Reset

 Jerry Seib Works Hard to Reset POTUS.  The eve of POTUS's second Oval Office speech, this time on Deepwater Iraq, the estimable and trenchant Jerry Seib, WSJ, measures the Obama administration foreign policy in the ummah and finds it "reset." This is generous and ambitious at once. POTUS has no…
By John Batchelor | August 31, 2010 1:38 PM (17)

Where in the World Is Zhou?

 Central Banker Mischief.  Unusual, already-denied (and yet still unexplained and puzzling) rumor out of China in the middle of the day that the big boss of the Central Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, is in big trouble. Defection was mentioned. The trouble points to major losses in US Treasury holdings. The…
By John Batchelor | August 30, 2010 9:43 PM (8)

Mission Summer Accomplished Recovery

 Long-term, Grinding, Deflating Federal Hooey. Steve Moore, WSJ, makes the easy and correct case that the Obama administration's ballyhooed stimulus and budget and various housing magic maneuvers have delivered up a Recovery Summer that is anemic, mortal, corpse-like -- may be an animated flesh-eating zombie that is ravenous and relentless.  POTUS…
By John Batchelor | August 29, 2010 4:45 PM (8)

Attack of the Zombie Republicans: Part 1

 Glenn Beck's Festival of Fools  by John Batchelor  The celebrity Glenn Beck has organized a festive and apparently harmless public event for the Washington Mall that he calls "Restoring Honor." This theme is so deeply bland that it invites us partisans to look for inner meaning, such as the fact that August 28…
By John Batchelor | August 28, 2010 11:41 AM (56)

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