Shame on NASA

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Fear and loathing.. refers to the recent NASA decision to abandon Hubble in favor of the ISS (International Space Station) on the ground that dead astronauts are politically unacceptable. Nonsense! Dead astronauts are even more acceptable than dead soldiers! Dead astronauts are glorious heroes deserving of the most intense national mourning and celebration! Dead soldiers may come and go, but dead astronauts are a rarity worth thinking about! Worth loving!

Dead soldiers are a dime a dozen nowadays, anyway.

And so I take up the cudgel, so to say, against a pansy NASA, which would rather sacrifice a True National Treasure like the Space Shuttle for an international boondoggle like the ISS. Somebody at NASA needs to be relieved, and I don't mean bathroomwise.