THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: What's next?

"We're trying to tell people it's there," Suffredini told SPACE.com. "A lot of people don’t know its there, sadly enough. And in a lot of cases people don’t know what it can do for them. We need people to know it's an asset out there they can utilize and there's all kinds of benefits if we can figure out how to utilize it."

'How to utilize it' should have been known before the ISS was built.

PAUL GREENBERG on the 'mercy killing' of Britian's News of the World.

OBVIOUSLY the ethics didn't take.

EDUCATION IS WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT -- and it's the Bush administration's fault. Of course.

HAS IT BEEN 42 YEARS ALREADY?

POPULATION CONTROL might not be a bad idea if it is liberals whose population is being controlled.

POVERTY, AMERICAN STYLE: "In contemporary America, poverty is not so much a material condition as a spiritual one, often characterized by drug abuse, alcoholism, mental illness and illegitimacy. Until voters have a better understanding of what today’s poverty is and is not, it will not be possible to craft effective solutions to the very real problems–mostly behavioral–that afflict a significant portion of our population."