Why Queen Mary? I visited her last summer, and (at least they are saying) she is financially stable now.

She was already stripped of asbestos in 1993-1994 in Sevastopol, Ukraine.

They’re all Neutron Jack Welch proteges, taught that the only thing is shareholder value. Not that Boeing’s missteps have helped that. I’m not suggesting that they’re intentionally tanking the stock, but they’re all focused on short-term profit, so they’re doing things like investing minimally in the product line, and…

Aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia has openly wondered if their current strategy is just to milk existing products as much as they can before breaking off the different portions of their business and selling it off. Because their current business strategy doesn’t make much sense otherwise, especially killing off…

This guy has a record of outrageously asshole behavior. He’s trading lawsuits with a pizza shop that he feels wronged him, which prompted him to park a car wrapped with insults to the pizza shop in front of them and hiring an airplane with a banner insulting the pizza shop to fly over them. Apparently he owns, at…

Most of the post-merger Boeing CEOs, and many other executives, learned their craft under Neutron Jack Welch, the man who probably has done more to damage American business competitiveness than any other individual. These guys are working directly from the Welch playbook.

That was one of the things that came up in preliminary investigations, I thought. One of the reasons you are hearing about Boeing reacquiring Spirit, although I am not very confident that it will actually help.

What about Rush?

Worth photoshopping Elon’s head onto this. Pretty much the vibe every time he complains about safety regulations.

A large part of it is what path it takes across the earth. If the shadow just grazes the Earth, it’s traveling through a shorter path than if it passes over a greater length of the Earth. So, it’s less speed that everything is moving (although that’s also subject to some spherical geometric goofiness), and more the…

Which is: STAINLESS STEEL!

Don’t tarnish the reputation of Maine Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie.

Wait ‘til you hear about Group C Sports car racing! Pretty much what you proposed, but more gas available, and it was higher octane (although still provided by the race organizers).

I’m not anti-carbon fiber, but I love those 50th anniversary gruppos.

This year, Campagnolo will equip no bikes in the Tour de France. 18 Shimano teams, 4 SRAM.

Please tell me this is some sort of trolling joke that I’m not quite getting . . .

Oh. Was it pedantic, nitpicky, and split hairs to distraction? Then, yeah, probably me.

1. I don’t have any sock puppet accounts here.

Yeah, that’s what Wikipedia says, but I’m listening to a lossless version on good headphones, and there’s an unmistakable “R” phoneme in it that the word “Olympus” doesn’t have. I checked the original album I bought in 1984, and no lyrics on the sleeve, so that doesn’t resolve it. So, I’m sticking with leopress (a…