{"id":57,"date":"2007-02-08T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/02\/08\/the-wrong-stuff\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T21:52:56","slug":"the-wrong-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/57","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issues having to do with an outrageous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17034540\">astronaut meltdown<\/a>, in addition to George Will&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/stories\/020707\/GEO_BCAGF349.059.php\">recent article<\/a> about Chicago, are stimulating my libertarian streak today. Is it possible that NASA officials are using scarce resources for a public relations effort to portray Captain Lisa Nowak as a sympathetic figure, in order to safeguard its own institutional image? If a Mayor Daley can begin turning over government assets to the free market, maybe it&#8217;s time we privatize the whole bloody space program and finally get on with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Consider this&#8212; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">If LBJ had farmed it all out to Walt Disney back when I was in junior high, do you think we&#8217;d still be fiddling around with obsolete launch vehicles and half-built orbital tin cans almost 40 years after we landed on the moon?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues having to do with an outrageous astronaut meltdown, in addition to George Will&#8217;s recent article about Chicago, are stimulating my libertarian streak today. Is it possible that NASA officials are using scarce resources for a public relations effort to portray Captain Lisa Nowak as a sympathetic figure, in order to safeguard its own institutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,44,16,47,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}