Bush Regime Playing Cards (UggaBugga)

" ! Wanted !

for

    * Looting Social Security trust funds
    * Taking the country to war under false pretenses
    * Ripping up the safety net
    * Eviscerating democracy
    * Strangling civil rights
    * Assaulting the New Deal
    * Being a partisan hack
    * Peddling economic snake oil
    * Perverting the Fourth Estate"

    

Bush Family Values: Notes on a Broken Marriage (washingtonpost.com)

Last summer, when presidential brother Neil Bush informed his wife of 23 years that he wanted a divorce, he did it by e-mail.

When a distraught Sharon Bush phoned her mother-in-law to commiserate about the 48-year-old Neil, Barbara Bush told her coolly, "That's between you and Neilsie."

    

Bezos in Space (Newsweek)

Bezos is boldly going where no dot-comer has gone before, but surprisingly, he’s not alone. He’s in the vanguard of a migration of successful high-tech entrepreneurs into the space industry.

Millionaires Elon Musk, the founder of the online payment firm PayPal, and John Carmack, the genius coder behind the games Doom and Quake, are each building their own separate rocket companies.

All these dreamers, and others in the movement, doubt if NASA will ever attempt anything else truly inspiring in their lifetimes. With the cocky self-assurance of entrepreneurs, they believe they can re-engineer rockets from the ground up, with modern information-technology systems, to accommodate spaceflight at a significantly lower cost than government bureaucrats now incur.