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Ain't this quite a sight? And the player being inducted with Sandberg this year was also pivotal during one of the greatest sports moments of my life: Wade Boggs. In 1996, I watched the Yankees rally back in the series...

Given the flak that members of this blog have recently taken from some retired academics, I found this piece to be of particular interest. The person who wrote this is not an academic, but I can tell she knows academia...

'Two-faced French sell out Cuban dissidents'

Another illustration of yesterday's post noting a certain continuation of attitude between the current Froggish regime and the traditions of the past as illustrated by the Vichy "republic". In this case, breaking faith with the rest of Eurostan, and incidently backstabbing the already severely threatened Cuban dissident community is nothing, a mere trifle, in the face of gaining a bit more trade with the Fidelistas.

Daschle?s Hildebrand lead permanent campaign?s bloggers are in a tailspin. Last week the two anonymous bloggers, Theron NcChesney and Nathan Peterson outed themselves. A couple of days later, Peterson pulled a blog watch chicken and deleted his site. [see update...

Ho-hum. Hillary Clinton is moving to the "center," although if you want to put the appropriate perspective on it, what she's actually doing is co-opting the issues that a lot of mainstream Americans are concerned about. And by "concerned" I...

Interesting juxtaposition of spaceflight-related stories here. Private enterprise vs. government bureaucracy?

NASA to Ground Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris

More trouble with the fuel tank foam has caused the grounding of the shuttle fleet (again), pending some resolution of the problem. They KNOW how to fix it...but...when they changed the foam due to new environmental requirements, they started having trouble with it. 'nuff said. In this decadant age bureaucracy trumps good engineering every time.

Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company

British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft. Called The Spaceship Company, the new entity will manufacture launch aircraft, various spacecraft and support equipment and market those products to spaceliner operators. Clients include launch customer, Virgin Galactic?formed by Branson to handle space tourist flights.

These guys will do it themselves, do it right, and make money at the same time!

If NASA is to maintain any credibility, they had better get off their keisters and get going on building something a bit more state-of-the-art than the 50-year old shuttle technology.

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