Dig at Green Jobs
Turns out some stimulus jobs were actually more shovel ready than we thought. Solyndra, a solar energy company with half a billion in federal funding, was one of several to assume room temperature this week.
Nasa Needs a Ride Board
Having abandoned the Space Shuttle by the side of the galaxy, NASA relied on the kindness of Russians for transportation to the International Space Station. Bad move. While NASA minds contemplated the finer points of alien attack (not involving relatives of the president), a Russian Soyuz blew up, leaving the space station lost in space.
Show of Hands
When a cartoon stings a politician in the United States the politician will sometimes ask the cartoonist for the original drawing and hang it on his wall. Apparently in Syria they hang the cartoonist on the wall. Ali Ferzat didn’t earn a spot above Assad’s desk but he was beaten by thugs and had both hands broken in honor of his work.
iWorld
Steve Jobs is resigning as CEO at Apple, a company he started with Steve Wosniak 1976. The company now reportedly has more cash on hand than the U.S. government. Ok, bad example, you probably do too. Anyway, Jobs is responsible for the personal computer as we know it today, as well as smart phones, iPads, movie animation, the music industry, and God knows what else.. He really did change the world. Here’s how Walt Mossberg, the WSJ tech guru, put it,
…Mr. Jobs, in multiple stages of his business career, changed global technology and media in multiple ways on multiple occasions. And that changed the way people live.
