View 682 Sunday July 10, 2011
I did a new column over the weekend. It will appear at Chaos Manor Reviews after the formal launch of BYTE Tuesday. CMR and BYTE will coexist and support each other, and I will have additional materials in BYTE itself. We’ll see where this goes. Gina is a ball of fire, and if anyone can restore the glory, she can.
The Washington Kabuki continues. Does anyone suspect that there will be actual cuts in expenditures? To Washington, the failure to give an institution more money is a “cut”. When all this is over, there will still be SWAT teams in the Department of Education, and inspectors whose job is to be sure that stage magicians who use bunny rabbits in their acts have federal licenses. There will still be 16 layers of management between the Secretary of Agriculture and the forest ranger, and between the Secretary of the Interior and the oil rig inspector. There will still be a bloated Department of Education which does more harm than good. The SEIU will still be paid and receive pensions.
And the manned space program will end when Atlantis lands.
It will be a long road back.
