I guess you must know that this is Presidents Day.  Congress in 1971 combined Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays into one holiday for all presidents.  Also a day for shopping.  In fact, did you know that  Amazon has a Presidents Day 40% off sale ?  If you scroll down, you will see items you don't need for more than 50% off.  Anyway, good time to focus on the current president and his  5150  president, Elon Musk. The  New York Times  this morning indicated that President Donald Trump's bulldozing the federal bureaucracy makes Democrats almost envious, but of course brings up the matter of a Constitutional Crisis. Democrats may not approve of Trump’s targets — foreign aid and consumer protection agencies — or the   potential constitutional crisis   he initiated when he tried to eliminate them. But some Democrats might envy the speed at which he cut through red tape. After all, liberal lawmakers have for years complained about b...

Yesterday,  Time  magazine said that Elon Musk's  Starship crash was no big deal .  Today:   There's No Way to Make Space Travel Good for Planet Earth Right Now .   SpaceX has bragged about their Falcon 9 rocket:  217 launches, with 61 in 2022 alone. The problem is that the Falcon 9 uses oxygen and fossil fuels, creating black soot injected directly into the stratosphere ( 7.5 miles to 31 miles high ).  This soot lingers for 5 years, absorbing heat, damaging the ozone layer and contributing to climate change. Of course, they are not alone, for there were 180 global rocket launches last year, and this will only get worse. Mind you, the aviation industry contributes 100 times more, but the difference is that airplanes fly only up to 6.6 miles, and the pollutants precipitate out the the atmosphere much more quickly. This is not a fair comparison, for there are so few, but a passenger aboard a rocket is responsible for 100 times more climate-changing ...