I've been under the weather a bit over the weekend. Bloggy goodness should be returning to a normal schedule.
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Good news for space buffs-SpaceX's Falcon is in the air and headed for the ISS after a false start over the weekend; an irony is that we have a privately-owned rocket doing work for the most statist administration in recent memory.
The advantage of such privatization of space is that it's not tied up in politics; the disadvantage is that it's dependent on either (a) making money or (b) living on donations or patient investors. However, that disadvantage may well be a feature in that (c) living off tax dollars is an untenable option in a tough economy.
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Two obits for the price of one. When I saw the passing of Bill Stewart, recently run out of WVU as football coach last summer, the old BeeGees tune How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Robin Gibb passed on as well this weekend) came to mind. Stewart was put out to pasture prematurely after he tried to kneecap his successor with bad press.
At 59, Stewart's career had run his course, and he may well have had little to live for. That brings back the old Bear Bryant quip of "croak[ing] in a week" after retirment; Bryant actually almost lasted through January of his retirement. Stewart almost made it a year, more than JoePa did after his ugly axing.
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The president's latest salvo reminds me of an old DL Moody quip, where Moody liked the way he did evangeliize better than his crittic didn't do is. I like how Romney worked in the private sector better than how Obama didn't work there.
His more prominent gig outside of a government job was as that well-documented community orginizer, who then gets government and donors to cough up funds. The funds have to be made somewhere; the organizer just gets to spend them.
Yes, people need to be laid off in some businesses, but unless you're going to have government subsidize red-ink firms, that's the nature of the beast.

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