PRESCRIPTION for what ails you.


It's been around for a while, but today it just feels right.

YESTERDAY WAS ‘EARTH DAY’ and hardly anyone noticed.

The President did issue an Earth Day Proclamation - quietly, at the end of “a three-day campaign-style trip logging 10,666 miles on Air Force One, eating up some 53,300 gallons at a cost of about $180,000. And that doesn't include the fuel consumption of his helicopter, limo, or the 29 other vehicles that travel with that car.”

HAVE A HAPPY Easter egg, er, ‘Spring Sphere’ roll.

WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER PAY FOR? Gender, women’s and sexuality studies, or skills training at a non-traditional ‘for-profit’ college?

We know which way the Democrats lean.

SUCKERS: That’s what you get for trusting me.

WASTE, ABUSE, AND FRAUD: “In other words, we do have a problem with waste, abuse, and fraud. We have wasted years in developing our own rich resources, an effort that not only would insulate us from the political shocks from political turmoil in oil-producing regimes but would also employ hundreds of thousands of Americans in high-paying jobs. This administration in particular has abused its power, even to the extent of defying a court order, to keep American production from getting more domestic oil to the country and lowering prices through the hardly-mysterious mechanism of supply and demand. And the fraud involved is the idea that we elected a brilliant President — instead of one who apparently needs an entire task force to understand the most basic concepts of free markets and pricing.”

DESTINATION DEIMOS: stepping stone to a Mars landing.

HEY, AS LONG AS THE COSTS fall on someone else ....

MAKING A PROFIT seems like a good reason to me. "The National Labor Relations Board Wednesday said aircraft maker Boeing Co. violated federal labor law by building a second production line for its 787 Dreamliner at a non-union factory in South Carolina, siding with union workers in Washington State who charged the decision was retaliation for their past strikes."

MORE here.

NOT ENOUGH TO DO IN WASHINGTON: President Obama will attend next week's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.

THE REST OF US GET THE SLEEPING CONTROLLERS: FAA announces supervisors must oversee planes carrying Biden, first lady.

TSA UNION ELECTION heads to a runoff. Now it's time for the 20,000 or so TSA employees who didn't vote (nearly 50%) to join with the 3,111 who voted not to elect union representation.

AND THAT IS SUFFICIENT REASON TO RETIRE: "We know that every intersection surrounding this new BRAC center site on Seminary Road and I-395 is going to be at a failing level of service."

ENVIRONMENTALISTS WONDER: Has the green movement been a miserable flop?

Uh, yes.

GALACTIC ROSE.


The Hubble Space Telescope turns 21 years old.

A BOON FOR OBAMACARE: energy-saving compact flourescent light bulbs can kill you.

SO WHAT'S NEW? "[Transportation Secretary Ray] LaHood seems blissfully uninterested in actually making things under his purview better. Rather, he spends most of his time going from cover-your-ass mode to laying on new fines and regs to anyone he can."

PENSION FUNDS unite Wall Street, public employee union politicos: ”The partnership between Wall Street and government unions wouldn't be so troubling except for one simple problem: When things go south, the taxpayer will end up holding the bag.”

COMING SOON FROM THE AIR FORCE: mind-reading drones:

Someone’s got to say it. Predicting a pilot’s intent might prevent collisions. But it can also neutralize a human counterattack. Or it can allow the drones’ armed cousins to mimic Israel in the Six Day War and blow up the manned aircraft on the tarmac. Coincidentally, according to the retcon in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, April 19, 2011 is the day that Skynet goes online. Think about it.

A bit overwrought, I think.

YOUR iPHONE IS SPYING ON YOU, and there’s nothing you can do about it.